profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Sonoco Products
$48.94+0.51% today
+17.7% in 1 year
1-year low $39.771-year high $60.56
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2020 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $4.82 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Sonoco Products sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $5.86 billion in 2022 to $7.52 billion in 2025, with $1.00 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Sonoco Products handed back 63% of the cash it generated last year.
$208M
Free cash flow 2025$346M
Bought back its own shares$11M
Paid as dividends$208M
Cash vs. debt$378M vs. $4.6B
Sonoco Products vs. similar companies
Sonoco Products grows in the middle of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoco Products | 4.8× · Cheap | ||
 Packaging Corporation of America | 28.9× · Fair price | ||
 Smurfit Westrock | 31.8× · Expensive | ||
 Amcor | 18.3× · Fair price | ||
 International Paper | No profit yet |
Compare Sonoco Products with Packaging Corporation of America · Smurfit Westrock
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Sonoco Products's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,349 | 5,720 | 5,859 | 5,441 | 5,305 | 7,519 | |
| 1,046 | 1,062 | 1,225 | 1,203 | 1,139 | 1,574 | |
| – | – | 616 | 558 | 415 | 712 | |
| 592 | 148 | 870 | 965 | 611 | 1,518 | |
| 207 | -85 | 466 | 475 | 164 | 1,003 | |
| 2.05 | -0.86 | 4.72 | 4.80 | 1.65 | 10.07 | |
| 19.6% | 18.6% | 20.9% | 22.1% | 21.5% | 20.9% | |
| – | – | 10.5% | 10.3% | 7.8% | 9.5% | |
| 3.9% | -1.5% | 8.0% | 8.7% | 3.1% | 13.3% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 5,277 | 5,073 | 7,053 | 7,192 | 12,508 | 11,162 |
| Cash | 565 | 171 | 227 | 139 | 431 | 378 |
| Total debt | 1,962 | 1,845 | 3,473 | 3,230 | 7,299 | 4,590 |
| Total liabilities | – | – | 4,980 | 4,760 | 10,222 | 7,531 |
| 1,900 | 1,837 | 2,066 | 2,424 | 2,272 | 3,614 | |
| 101 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | |
| 6.8% | -2.1% | 8.0% | 8.7% | 1.9% | 9.6% | |
| 10.9% | -4.7% | 22.6% | 19.6% | 7.2% | 27.8% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 706 | 299 | 509 | 883 | 834 | 690 | |
| 194 | 256 | 329 | 363 | 393 | 344 | |
| 511 | 43 | 180 | 520 | 441 | 346 | |
| Dividends paid | 173 | 179 | 187 | 197 | 203 | 208 |
| 8 | 218 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 11 | |
| 11 | 23 | 31 | 28 | 30 | 18 |
Valuation
- 4.8×
- 8.4×
- 0.13
- 1.3×
- 0.6×
- 14.0×
- 6.0×
- 7.1%
- 20.7%
- 4.5%
Profitability
- 20.9%
- 9.5%
- 13.3%
- 20.6%
- 5.4%
- 4.2%
- 30.1%
- 9.4%
- 7.9%
- –
Growth
- +7.0%
- +37.5%
- −10.9%
- +4.2%
- −0.0%
Financial health
- 3.1×
- 1.38
- 44.8%
- 2.9×
- 0.96
- 0.54
- 0.68
How it ranks in Consumer Discretionary
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 32%of 981
Top 42%of 995
Top 3%of 858
Bottom 46%of 996
Top 36%of 982
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $59.00
- Range
- $47.00 – $69.00
- 4 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2026 | 1.20 | 1.20 | +0.0% |
| Feb 16, 2026 | 1.05 | 1.01 | +4.0% |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 1.92 | 1.91 | +0.5% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | 1.37 | 1.44 | −4.9% |
| Apr 29, 2025 | 1.38 | 1.41 | −2.1% |
| Feb 18, 2025 | 1.17 | 1.18 | −0.8% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 1.49 | 1.44 | +3.5% |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 1.28 | 1.26 | +1.6% |
4.5%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$45a year at today's yield, before tax
+4.2%2020 to 2025
Raised10 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$1.37 in 2015 → $2.11 in 2025
How safe it looks
20.7% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 60.2%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
40No pass
Benjamin Graham
60Pass
Philip Fisher
59No pass
Peter Lynch
84Pass
Joel Greenblatt
56No pass
Charlie Munger
35No pass
Terry Smith
35No pass
Questions about Sonoco Products
Is Sonoco Products a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 2 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Sonoco Products AI analysis
What does Sonoco Products do?
Sonoco Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells industrial and consumer packaging products in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company operates through two segments: Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging. It is in Packaging & Containers, based in Hartsville, SC, United States, with 22,000 employees.
Does Sonoco Products pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.5% a year, about 21% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $208 million in dividends.
Is Sonoco Products stock halal?
No. Sonoco Products does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 95% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Sonoco Products stock done over the past year?
Up 17.7% over the past twelve months, to $48.94. It traded between $39.77 and $60.56 and is 19.2% below its high.
Who are Sonoco Products's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Packaging Corporation of America, Smurfit Westrock, Amcor and International Paper. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Sonoco Products's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.