Sonoco Products Company (SON)

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Sonoco Products Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Sonoco Products Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.9 billion in fiscal 2016 to $7.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.9% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Sonoco Products Company's diluted share count grew about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 27% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $990 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Sonoco Products Company earned about 28 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 14 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 67 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Sonoco Products Company's standing among 19 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $7.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 36% by size; a net margin of 13.3% ranks in the top 8%; revenue growth of 8.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 18% (its annual reports).

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Sonoco Products Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Coker, R. Howard (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-02-11, 6.8 years (top 27% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.1 years (top 12%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (bottom 43%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Sonoco Products Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $378 million against debt of $3.8 billion leaves -30.6% of its assets as net cash, top 50% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.6% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 20.9% (top 47%); research spending of 0.3% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

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Sonoco Products Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 8.7% a year over the last three filed years against 4.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 8% of its family); the newest year grew 41.8% (top 18%); research spending grew -2.4% a year (bottom 19%); capital spending grew 1.5% a year (top 45%) (its annual reports). Sonoco Products Company reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Consumer Packaging at $4.9 billion, Industrial Paper Packaging at $2.3 billion. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 68% of revenue (its annual report).

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Sonoco Products Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $7.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 48.9% above the $5.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 8% of its family); net income of $1.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $368 million (top 3%); a net margin of 13.3% against 6.6% before (top 14%) (its annual reports).