Compare Stocks: GEF, SON, and BALL

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BALL Ball	$56.39 -0.2%	$61.73	$44.83 ▼ $68.29	$14.96B	0.96	2.00 million shs	1.86 million shs
GEF Greif	$82.12 +0.7%	$84.84	$55.75 ▼ $90.57	$3.77B	0.77	382,015 shs	307,708 shs
SON Sonoco Products	$48.79 +0.6%	$54.00	$38.65 ▼ $60.67	$4.80B	0.35	1.16 million shs	878,545 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BALL Ball	-0.12%	-0.69%	-10.92%	-10.99%	+11.73%
GEF Greif	+0.88%	-0.82%	-4.05%	+9.33%	+36.36%
SON Sonoco Products	+0.58%	-2.52%	-10.79%	-15.08%	+13.39%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
BALL Ball	$56.39 -0.2%	$61.73	$44.83 ▼ $68.29	$14.96B	0.96	2.00 million shs	1.86 million shs
GEF Greif	$82.12 +0.7%	$84.84	$55.75 ▼ $90.57	$3.77B	0.77	382,015 shs	307,708 shs
SON Sonoco Products	$48.79 +0.6%	$54.00	$38.65 ▼ $60.67	$4.80B	0.35	1.16 million shs	878,545 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BALL Ball	-0.12%	-0.69%	-10.92%	-10.99%	+11.73%
GEF Greif	+0.88%	-0.82%	-4.05%	+9.33%	+36.36%
SON Sonoco Products	+0.58%	-2.52%	-10.79%	-15.08%	+13.39%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BALL Ball	2.62	Moderate Buy	$71.69	27.14% Upside
GEF Greif	2.00	Hold	$83.00	1.08% Upside
SON Sonoco Products	2.33	Hold	$60.78	24.57% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest GEF, SON, and BALL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/25/2026	BALL Ball	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C+)
9/18/2026	BALL Ball	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Overweight	$65.00
9/11/2026	SON Sonoco Products	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Hold (C+)
9/3/2026	SON Sonoco Products	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Neutral	$69.00 ➝ $60.00
8/26/2026	SON Sonoco Products	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Buy (B-)
8/5/2026	BALL Ball	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$65.00 ➝ $66.00
8/5/2026	BALL Ball	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$78.00
8/5/2026	BALL Ball	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$72.00
8/5/2026	BALL Ball	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Reduce
8/5/2026	BALL Ball	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$71.00 ➝ $72.00
8/5/2026	BALL Ball	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Neutral	$60.00 ➝ $65.00

(Data available from 10/3/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
BALL Ball	$13.16B	1.13	$5.99 per share	9.42	$20.23 per share	2.79
GEF Greif	$5.45B	0.70	$6.43 per share	12.77	$47.12 per share	1.74
SON Sonoco Products	$7.46B	0.65	$6.89 per share	7.08	$36.82 per share	1.33

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
BALL Ball	$912M	$3.53	15.97	12.39	1.09	6.61%	18.76%	5.35%	11/3/2026 (Estimated)
GEF Greif	$268.80M	$3.19	25.74	17.32	0.65	7.53%	8.09%	3.86%	11/3/2026 (Estimated)
SON Sonoco Products	$1.00B	$6.29	7.76	7.72	1.21	8.41%	16.50%	5.19%	10/21/2026 (Estimated)

Latest GEF, SON, and BALL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/21/2026	Q3 2026	SON Sonoco Products	$1.92	N/A	N/A	N/A	$2.11 billion	N/A
8/4/2026	Q2 2026	BALL Ball	$0.9890	$1.03	+$0.0410	$0.83	$3.69 billion	$4.00 billion
7/28/2026	Q3 2026	GEF Greif	$1.11	$1.61	+$0.50	$1.35	$1.12 billion	$1.17 billion
7/22/2026	Q2 2026	SON Sonoco Products	$1.47	$1.51	+$0.04	$1.05	$1.88 billion	$1.89 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
BALL Ball	$0.80	1.42%	+5.92%	22.66%	N/A
GEF Greif	$2.48	3.02%	+3.60%	77.74%	4 Years
SON Sonoco Products	$2.16	4.43%	+4.17%	34.34%	43 Years

Latest GEF, SON, and BALL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/25/2026	GEF Greif	quarterly	$0.62	2.99%	9/17/2026	9/17/2026	10/1/2026
7/29/2026	BALL Ball	quarterly	$0.20	1.28%	9/1/2026	9/1/2026	9/15/2026
7/15/2026	SON Sonoco Products	quarterly	$0.54	3.74%	8/10/2026	8/10/2026	9/10/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
BALL Ball	1.13	1.07	0.66
GEF Greif	0.23	1.29	0.99
SON Sonoco Products	0.97	0.99	0.55

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BALL Ball	86.51%
GEF Greif	45.74%
SON Sonoco Products	77.69%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BALL Ball	0.58%
GEF Greif	7.70%
SON Sonoco Products	0.98%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BALL Ball	16,000	264.70 million	263.17 million	Optionable
GEF Greif	12,000	46.17 million	42.61 million	Optionable
SON Sonoco Products	22,000	98.88 million	97.91 million	Optionable

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Recent News About These Companies

Sonoco To Report Third Quarter 2026 Results

September 22, 2026 | globenewswire.com

Bank of America Corp DE Purchases Shares of 3,637,407 Sonoco Products Company $SON

September 17, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sonoco Products Company (SON) Presents at Jefferies Global Industrials Conference 2026 - Slideshow

September 12, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Sonoco Products Company (SON) Presents at UBS Global Materials Conference 2026 - Slideshow

September 12, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

27,800 Shares in Sonoco Products Company $SON Purchased by VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEMS ET Al

September 12, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Wall Street's Most Accurate Analysts Spotlight On 3 Materials Stocks Delivering High-Dividend Yields

September 11, 2026 | benzinga.com

Sonoco Products Company (NYSE:SON) Given Consensus Rating of "Hold" by Analysts

September 10, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Readystate Asset Management LP Grows Stock Position in Sonoco Products Company $SON

September 7, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Wellington Management Group LLP Has $24.14 Million Stake in Sonoco Products Company $SON

September 6, 2026 | marketbeat.com

B of A Securities downgrades Sonoco Products (SON) to neutral from buy

September 4, 2026 | msn.com

Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) Shares Down 6.4% Following Analyst Downgrade

September 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

This Sonoco Analyst Is No Longer Bullish; Here Are Top 4 Downgrades For Thursday

September 3, 2026 | benzinga.com

Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) Cut to Neutral at Bank of America

September 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

106,546 Shares in Sonoco Products Company $SON Bought by Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio

September 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Jupiter Topco LLC Purchases New Shares in Sonoco Products Company $SON

September 3, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sonoco to Increase Paperboard Prices in EMEA Region

August 25, 2026 | globenewswire.com

Sonoco Names Francesco Giannolo Vice President/General Manager Consumer Packaging, EMEA

August 18, 2026 | globenewswire.com

I've Got Royalty on the Brain

August 8, 2026 | etftrends.comE

Sonoco Aligns Global Consumer Businesses Under Single Leadership Structure

August 4, 2026 | globenewswire.com

Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) VP Sells 261 Shares

August 1, 2026 | insidertrades.com

Sonoco Expands Wood Reels Manufacturing and Assembly Capacity to Meet Growing Market Demand

July 30, 2026 | globenewswire.com

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GEF, SON, and BALL Company Descriptions

Ball NYSE:BALL

$56.39 -0.11 (-0.20%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$56.68 +0.29 (+0.51%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Ball Corporation supplies aluminum packaging products for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries in the United States, Brazil, and internationally. The company manufactures and sells aluminum beverage containers to fillers of carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and other beverages. It also manufactures and sells extruded aluminum aerosol containers, recloseable aluminum bottles, aluminum cups, and aluminum slugs. Ball Corporation was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

Greif NYSE:GEF

$82.12 +0.56 (+0.68%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$82.18 +0.06 (+0.07%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Greif, Inc. engages in the production and sale of industrial packaging products and services worldwide. The company operates through Global Industrial Packaging; Paper Packaging & Services; and Land Management segments. The Global Industrial Packaging segment produces and sells industrial packaging products, including steel, fiber, and plastic drums; rigid and flexible intermediate bulk containers; closure systems for industrial packaging products; transit protection products; water bottles, and remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers; and various services, such as container life cycle management, filling, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services to chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, mineral product, and other industries. The Paper Packaging & Services segment produces and sells containerboards, corrugated sheets and containers, and other corrugated and specialty products to customers in the packaging, automotive, food, and building products markets; and produces and sells coated and uncoated recycled paperboard, and recycled fiber. This segment's corrugated container products are used to ship various products, such as home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, automotive components, books, and furniture, as well as various other applications. The Land Management segment engages in harvesting and regeneration of timber properties; and sale of timberland and special use properties. As of October 31, 2023, this segment owned approximately 175,000 acres of timber properties in the southeastern United States. The company was formerly known as Greif Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Greif, Inc. in 2001. Greif, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Delaware, Ohio.

Sonoco Products NYSE:SON

$48.79 +0.29 (+0.60%)

Closing price 10/2/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$48.74 -0.05 (-0.10%)

As of 10/2/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

Sonoco Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells various engineered and sustainable packaging products in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company operates Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging segments. The Consumer Packaging segment offers round and shaped rigid paper, steel, and plastic containers; metal and peelable membrane ends, closures, and components; thermoformed plastic trays and enclosures; and high-barrier flexible packaging products. The Industrial Paper Packaging segment provides paperboard tubes, cones, and cores; paper-based protective packaging products; and uncoated recycled paperboard products. It also offers various packaging materials, including plastic, paper, foam, and other specialty materials. Sonoco Products Company sells its products in various markets, which include paper, textile, film, food, packaging, construction, and wire and cable. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina.

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