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Sonoco Products Co. SON

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

17 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH

Revenue

$7.5B

▲ 41.7% YoY

Net income

$1.0B

▲ 511.8% YoY

Free cash flow

$345.8M

▼ 21.5% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Sonoco Products Company is a designer, developer and manufacturer of packaging serving multiple end markets. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 265 locations in 37 countries. Sonoco had approximately 22,000 full-time equivalent employees as of December 31, 2025, of which approximately 35% were located in the United States, 42% in Europe, and 23% in other geographies. The Company currently reports its financial results in two reportable segments, Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging, with all remaining businesses reported as All Other. The Consumer Packaging segment accounted for approximately 65%, 48%, and 45% of the Company's consolidated net sales in the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. The Industrial Paper Packaging segment accounted for approximately 30%, 44%, and 44% of the Company's consolidated net sales in the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. Sonoco Products Company is a South Carolina corporation founded in Hartsville, South Carolina, in 1899 as the Southern Novelty Company. In 1923, the Southern Novelty Company name was changed to Sonoco Products Company, using the first two letters from each word of its original name.

Written from the business description in SONOCO PRODUCTS CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 7.5B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 7.5 · Net income 1.0

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+8.7%

+7.5%

+4.2%

+4.1%

Net income

+29.1%

+37.0%

+14.9%

+11.3%

EPS, diluted

+28.7%

+37.5%

+15.2%

+11.5%

Dividend / share

+3.2%

+4.2%

+4.4%

Returned to shareholders

+4.6%

+3.9%

+4.2%

+4.5%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.5% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +37.0%, earnings per share at +37.5%.

The share count fell from 0.10B to 0.10B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

13 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 13.5% · Net 13.3%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 34.1%

Gross margin20.9%

Operating margin13.5%

Net margin13.3%

Return on assets8.5%

EBITDAUSD 1.5B

Each USD of equity produced 34 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 219.0M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 345.8

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 208.1 · Net buybacks 10.9

Dividends paidUSD 208.1M

Net buybacksUSD 10.9M

Share of profit21.8%

Consecutive raises17 years

USD 208.1M in dividends and USD 10.9M in buybacks — 22% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 11.2B

EquityUSD 3.6B

CashUSD 378.4M

Gross debtUSD 4.3B

Net debtUSD 3.9B

Current ratio1.05×

Net debt stands at 109% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
Revenue $B	7.5	5.3	5.4	5.9	5.6	5.2	5.4	5.4	5.0	4.8	5.0	5.0	4.9	4.8	4.5	4.1	3.6	4.1
Operating income $B	1.0	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2
EBITDA $B	1.5	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4
Income tax $B	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	−0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Net income $B	1.0	0.2	0.5	0.5	−0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Free cash flow $B	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3
EPS, diluted $	10.07	1.65	4.80	4.72	−0.86	2.05	2.88	3.10	1.74	2.81	2.44	2.19	2.03	1.90	2.13	1.96	1.50	1.63
Dividend / sh $	2.11	2.07	2.02	1.92	1.80	1.72	1.70	1.62	1.54	1.46	1.37	1.27	1.23	1.19	1.15	1.11	1.08	1.07
Payout %	21	124	42	40	−209	83	58	51	87	51	55	57	59	61	53	56	71	65
ROE %	34.1	7.0	21.2	23.9	−4.6	11.2	16.4	18.1	10.8	18.8	16.7	14.2	13.2	13.5	15.0	14.1	11.1	·
Shares out B	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	·

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityPaperboard Containers & Boxes

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inSouth Carolina

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2008