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) Operating margin

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Sonoco Products Company's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 2.74%, down 10.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (13.5%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.16% (fiscal 2024) to 13.5% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is below the Packaging & Containers industry median of 6.42% and below the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 13.5% 7.38
FY2024 6.16% (4.67)
FY2023 10.8% 1.22
FY2022 9.61% 0.90
FY2021 8.71% 1.88
FY2020 6.83% (1.86)
FY2019 8.69% 0.57
FY2018 8.12% (0.07)
FY2017 8.19% (0.18)
FY2016 8.37% 0.66

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 −31.3% (41.48)
Jun 2026 10.2% 2.65
Mar 2026 7.58% (21.85)
Dec 2025 29.4% 20.28
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 6.16% High 13.5%
Ten-year median 8.37%
Current reading's percentile 2

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
REYN Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. compare 13.4%
CCK Crown Holdings, Inc. compare 12.0%
AVY Avery Dennison Corporation compare 11.7%
GEF.B Greif Inc. compare 10.8%
GEF Greif, Inc. compare 9.97%
SLGN Silgan Holdings Inc. compare 8.50%
AMBP Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. compare 5.10%
GPK Graphic Packaging Holding Company compare 4.29%
SON Sonoco Products Company 2.74%
Packaging & Containers industry median 6.42%
Consumer Cyclical sector median 3.88%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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