Is the price fair?
What SON's price assumes
Sonoco Products Company trades at 5.64× earnings against 19.1× for the median Packaging & Containers name, cheaper than its own group.
5.64
Trailing P/E · Packaging & Containers median 19.1 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.70
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.3%
Free cash flow yield · Packaging & Containers median 4.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +7.6%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +7.6% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −6.1% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.47
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 8.36
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.14
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E263 names
- 22.0
- Packaging & Containers median P/E15 names
- 19.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $217M
- Market capitalisation
- $5.01B
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −6.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 5.92× today against a 15.0× median |
| 52-week range | $38.00 – $60.55 |
| Today | $57.57 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Packaging & Containers
Ranks #4 of 15 by Smart Score