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At its beginnings in 1899, a team of 12 people worked from a rented warehouse to produce the Company s first product, a cone-shaped paper yarn carrier used for winding and transporting yarn. Since most of the textile cones of that day were wooden, paper cones were a novelty.
$56.57
+$0.39 (+0.69%)
EOD Jul 17, 2026
13.54% operating margin is respectable but not wide. ROIC at 9.27%. Suggests the business covers its cost of capital, but doesn't point to a wide moat.
Revenue up 41.7% YoY with margins expanding 6.1pp. However, free cash flow softened 22%, worth monitoring whether this is timing or structural.
Free cash flow declined 22% versus the prior year, cash generation momentum has weakened. Net debt of $4.32B represents 12.5x FCF, leverage limits flexibility.
5.5x earnings, 26.1x FCF. The multiple is below average. Either the market is pricing in deterioration you should investigate, or there's genuine value here.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
$7.49B
▲ +41.7% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
$1.02B
▲ +511.8% YoY
Op. Margin
13.60%
▲ +6.1pp YoY
ROIC
9.72%
▲ +4.3pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
$217M
▼ -21.5% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
$530M
▼ -17.3% YoY
Net Debt
$4.84B
Cash & Equiv.
$224M
5Y CAGR: +7.0%
5Y CAGR: -7.5%
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At a P/E of 5.5 and a price-to-free-cash-flow of 26.1, Sonoco Products (SON) trades around a two-stage DCF intrinsic value of about $61.10 per share, so at $56.57 the stock looks around fair value (8.0% below estimated intrinsic value). A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Sonoco Products scores 62/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard (a solid business on these measures), weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. It currently yields about 3.7%; see dividend safety for coverage and history. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full methodology. This is analysis, not investment advice.
Intrinsiqq's two-stage DCF estimates an intrinsic value of about $61.10 per share for SON, projecting its recent free cash flow forward with a growth rate that fades toward a long-run rate and discounting it back to today. Applying a 25% margin of safety gives a more conservative fair-value entry around $45.83. At today's $56.57, that puts the stock about 8.0% below estimated intrinsic value. The result is sensitive to the growth and discount-rate inputs, so it is best to run conservative, base and optimistic cases. You can adjust all of them yourself with the sliders on the DCF tab.
Sonoco Products scores 62 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 8 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a solid business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a 13.6% operating margin and a 9.7% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
Yes, Sonoco Products pays a regular dividend of about $2.10 per share per year (typically in quarterly installments), a yield of roughly 3.7% at the current price. That is a payout ratio of about 20.6% of earnings, so the dividend is amply covered by earnings. Sonoco Products has grown the dividend at roughly 3.9% a year over the past few years. A low headline yield is not the same as a weak dividend: what matters is how well earnings and free cash flow cover the payout and whether it is growing, not the percentage alone. For SON's full payout history, growth streak and dividend-safety score, see the dividends tab.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. SON currently trades around its estimated intrinsic value and scores 62/100 on quality (solid). It also yields about 3.7%. A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.