Sonoco Products Company (SON)
Consumer · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 01:43 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Sonoco Products Company trades at $48.82, which is 153% below the $123.60 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 40 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 8.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
SON dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.61 | 3 |
| 2025 | $2.11 | 4 |
| 2024 | $2.07 | 4 |
| 2023 | $2.02 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.92 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.80 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.72 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.70 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.62 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.54 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.46 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
SON earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 11 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Sonoco Products Company
Sonoco Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells various engineered and sustainable packaging products in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging. The Consumer Packaging segment offers round and shaped rigid paper, steel, and plastic containers, as well as metal and peelable membrane ends, closures, and components. Its Industrial Paper Packaging segment provides paperboard tubes, cones, and cores; paper-based protective packaging; and uncoated recycled paperboards. The company also offers packaging materials, such as plastic, paper, foam, and various other specialty materials. It sells its products in various markets, including the paper, textile, film, food, packaging, construction, and wire and cable markets. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
SON passes 6 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
8 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$69.77M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$32.47M · 0.0% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$32.46M · 0.1% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$12.07M · 0.0% of book
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$8.73M · 0.1% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
SON peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Packaging & Containers), then in the same sector.
- SW Smurfit Westrock Plc
- PKG Packaging Corporation of America
- AMCR Amcor plc
- IP International Paper Company
- CCK Crown Holdings, Inc.
- AVY Avery Dennison Corporation
- SLGN Silgan Holdings Inc.
- REYN Reynolds Consumer Products Inc.
Every consumer company we cover is on the Consumer hub.
Common questions
Is Sonoco Products Company (SON) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $123.60, SON at $48.82 is 153% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own SON?
8 of the institutions we track reported a position in SON in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is SON's P/E ratio?
SON trades at 8.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Sonoco Products Company (SON) pay a dividend?
Yes. Sonoco Products Company yields 3.96% at the current share price. It has paid $2.14 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 36 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its SON data?
Fundamentals for SON come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 01:43 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.