Sonoco Products Company (SON): Price and Financial Metrics

SON POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where SON ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 92.82% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SON is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 48 weeks.
• SON ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 18th percentile.

SON Stock Summary

• Sonoco Products Co's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.65% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, SON is more volatile than only 3.91% of stocks we're observing.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for SON comes in at 17.69% -- higher than that of 87.63% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SON, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are IHT, TMX, THS, OII, and HI.
• SON's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Sonoco Products Co's official web site, go to www.sonoco.com.

SON Valuation Summary

• SON's price/sales ratio is 1.2; this is 14.29% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• SON's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, SON's price/earnings ratio has gone down 59.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SON.

SON Growth Metrics

• The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at 6.14%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -59.6%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -33.24%.

Over the past 52 months, SON's revenue has gone up $695,795,000.

The table below shows SON's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	5,424.72	525.583	-189.966
2021-03-31	5,287.451	756.623	199.315
2020-12-31	5,237.443	705.621	207.463
2020-09-30	5,169.945	676.533	264.004
2020-06-30	5,211.562	667.76	272.619
2020-03-31	5,325.798	421.244	298.567

SON's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• SON has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 68.54% of graded US stocks.
• SON's asset turnover comes in at 1.018 -- ranking 2nd of 11 Shipping Containers stocks.
• PKG, GEF, and DSS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SON.

The table below shows SON's key quality metrics over time.