Packaging Corp of America Stock Sees Short Interest Move 11.3% Lower

The most recent short interest data has been released for the 07/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 263,117 share decrease in total short interest for Packaging Corp of America (PKG), to 2,059,830, a decrease of 11.33% since 07/14/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded..