Sonoco/$SON
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About Sonoco
Sonoco Products Co is engaged in the manufacture and supply of consumer and industrial packaging products, offering paper, metal, and plastic packaging solutions across multiple end markets. The company has two reportable segments: Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging. The Consumer Packaging segment provides rigid packaging solutions mainly for food, beverage, household, personal care, and pharmaceutical products, while the Industrial Paper Packaging segment produces paper-based packaging materials such as tubes, cores, and protective packaging, supported by paper mills and recycling operations, serving industrial and consumer markets. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Consumer Packaging segment.
- Ticker
- $SON
- Sector
- Materials
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- 22,000
- Headquarters
- Hartsville, United States
- Website
- www.sonoco.com
Sonoco Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$4.8B
7.67
$6.29
0.35
$2.14
4.47%
Price and volume
Market cap
$4.8B
Beta
0.35
52-week high
$60.67
52-week low
$38.65
Average daily volume
983K
Dividend rate
$2.14
Financial strength
Current ratio
0.995
Quick ratio
0.487
Long term debt to equity
1.04
Total debt to equity
1.324
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
33.51%
Interest coverage (TTM)
3.70%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
1,249.679
Gross margin (TTM)
20.79%
Net profit margin (TTM)
8.41%
Operating margin (TTM)
10.08%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
21.03%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$340,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
4.10%
Return on equity (TTM)
18.85%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
7.675
Price to revenue (TTM)
0.642
Price to book
1.33
Price to tangible book (TTM)
-3.37
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
13.511
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
7.40%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
3.574
Dividend yield (TTM)
4.43%
Forward dividend yield
4.47%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
17.73%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
12.61%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
2.14%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
4.21%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
8.83%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
11.54%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
2.46%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
4.14%
What the Analysts think about Sonoco
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Sonoco stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Sonoco stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
North America uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) trade ton sales grew 6% in Q2, boosting mill utilization to 95% and driving a 4% segment operating profit increase in Industrial Paper Packaging (Sonoco IR Q2).
Sonoco delivered a record operating cash flow of $301 million in Q2—up 56% year-over-year—underscoring the strong cash-generating capability of its portfolio despite macro headwinds (Sonoco IR Q2).
The company is investing approximately $20 million to add new wood reel production capacity in Alabama to meet growing wire and cable infrastructure demand from AI data center projects, positioning Sonoco in a high-growth end market (Sonoco IR Q1).
Net sales declined 1.9% in Q1 and 1.3% in Q2 year-over-year, driven primarily by the divestiture of the ThermoSafe business and lower volumes in both Consumer and Industrial segments (Sonoco IR Q1) (Sonoco IR Q2).
The company has guided to the low end of its full-year adjusted EPS range of $5.80 to $6.20, citing elevated inflationary pressures on energy, logistics, chemicals, resins and uncertainty in industrial and consumer demand (Sonoco IR Q1).
The conflict in Iran has raised raw material and freight costs for container packaging companies, with Sonoco flagged among those experiencing higher input and logistics expenses that press on margins (Bloomberg).
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 3 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Sonoco
AllEURGBPUSD
Fund name | Fund size | $SON weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend€EXX5 | €412M | 0.41% |
SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats€SPYD | €3.3B | 0.21% |
SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats£USDV | £2.8B | 0.21% |
SPDR S&P 400 US Mid Cap$SPY4 | $6.3B | 0.14% |
SPDR S&P 400 US Mid Cap£SPX4 | £4.7B | 0.14% |
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