Valuation

SONSonoco Products Co

StockNYSEUnited StatesMaterialsEU retail investors: available

−0.4% today · +28.8% over a year

1/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 40% of the instruments we score

Priced higher than most peers. Dividend yield 5.33%.

Sonoco Products Co (SON) valuation against sector peers: P/B 1.8, EV/EBIT 45.0, free-cash-flow yield 7.1%, P/S 0.7.

Ratios vs sector

Medians of Materials companies in the same region (stocks and REITs).

Lower P/E, P/B, P/S and EV/EBIT mean cheaper; higher yields, returns and margins mean more for the price. Negative multiples (losses) are left out of the medians.
MetricSONSector medianvs median
P/E—23.8 · n=64—
P/B1.82.1 · n=8214% below
P/S0.71.2 · n=8246% below
EV/EBIT45.019.9 · n=50126% above
Free-cash-flow yield7.1%3.6% · n=8097% above
Dividend yield5.33%1.30% · n=89310% above
Return on equity−7.4%10.3% · n=84172% below
Return on invested capital2.7%6.4% · n=6558% below
Gross margin20.2%23.9% · n=8315% below
Net debt / EBITDA5.632.41 · n=60133% above

Value factor: 40 of 100 within the peer group. Full score breakdown →

Sector peers

The largest companies of the same sector and region.

NEMNewmont14.13.6—7.7%0.8%9/10
FCXFreeport-McMoRan26.14.314.7—0.9%5/10
SHWSherwin-Williams32.321.7—3.6%1.1%8/10
ECLEcolab41.38.333.92.1%1.0%8/10
APDAir Products & Chemicals—5.0—−0.4%2.3%1/10
CRHCRH plc18.32.615.13.9%1.2%5/10
NUENucor19.72.6—2.8%0.9%8/10
WCNWaste Connections41.96.032.32.6%0.8%6/10
MLMMartin Marietta Materials16.42.138.42.3%0.6%1/10
VMCVulcan Materials33.74.425.62.1%0.7%5/10

Fiscal-year history

From annual SEC filings; each bar is a fiscal year, labelled by the year it ended.

Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR · ratios computed by AI-Stock Invest from public filings and end-of-day prices · latest period 27 Sep 2026 · filed 28 Oct 2026