Sonoco Products Company

SON Consumer Cyclical Packaging & Containers

Sonoco Products Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $7.5 billion, up 41.7% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−4.20%
EPS
−698.4%
Free cash flow
+1.80%
Total debt
−0.16%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

51.42 0.21 −0.41%
Market cap
$5.1B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−9.8×
Dividend yield
4.16%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.76
Beneish M
−2.38
Dividend safety
75/100

Sonoco Products Company (SON) Free cash flow margin

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Sonoco Products Company's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 5.52%, up 0.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (5.22%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.00% (fiscal 2021) to 11.0% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Packaging & Containers industry median of 4.78% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.20%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 5.22% (3.38)
FY2024 8.60% (2.43)
FY2023 11.0% 7.79
FY2022 3.24% 2.24
FY2021 1.00% (9.01)
FY2020 10.0% 5.46
FY2019 4.55% (3.27)
FY2018 7.82% 4.55
FY2017 3.27% (7.02)
FY2016 10.3% 4.38

Against its own ten years

Low 1.00% High 11.0%
Ten-year median 5.91%
Current reading's percentile 45

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
GEF.B Greif Inc. compare 15.5%
GEF Greif, Inc. compare 13.4%
AVY Avery Dennison Corporation compare 10.8%
CCK Crown Holdings, Inc. compare 7.64%
REYN Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. compare 7.40%
SON Sonoco Products Company 5.52%
SLGN Silgan Holdings Inc. compare 5.23%
AMBP Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. compare 5.00%
GPK Graphic Packaging Holding Company compare 4.80%
Packaging & Containers industry median 4.78%
Consumer Cyclical sector median 3.20%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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