SONSonoco Products Company

Consumer Cyclical

$47.91+6.9% 1Y

$47.91

$38.0052 weeks$60.56

Is the price fair?

Good

Undemanding: cheap against its own history and cheap vs its sector.

2 good, 1 without data

What the price assumes~+9% a year

Priced for ~9% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.

Vs its own P/E rangecheapest in 36 quartersderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 4.7 vs a 14.1 median over 36 quarters (−67% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)9.7×

Sector median 16.2× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Mar 29, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)top 1% of the market

FCF yieldmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What SON's price assumes

Sonoco Products Company trades at 4.70× earnings against 17.6× for the median Packaging & Containers name, cheaper than its own group.

4.70

Trailing P/E · Packaging & Containers median 17.6 · cheaper than the typical name in its group

Price / sales: 0.72
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 29, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 4.0%
Free cash flow yield · Packaging & Containers median 5.3%
Growth the price implies: +8.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +8.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −6.1% a year over the last three.