Is it safe?
Can SON take a bad year?
Sonoco Products Company carries $4.47B of net debt at 3.25× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.47B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.25×
Net debt / EBITDA · 10.8× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.84
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 4.59×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.69B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $224M
- Net debt
- $4.47B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.37B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.02B
- Debt / equity
- 1.31×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.42×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −42%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.9%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Packaging & Containers
Ranks #4 of 15 by Smart Score