Sonoco Products - SON Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sonoco Products in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" SON shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in SON, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Sonoco Products' shares. Their SON share price forecasts range from $58.00 to $76.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $66.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.8% from the stock's current price.
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Sonoco Products' stock was trading at $60.71 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, SON shares have increased by 0.8% and is now trading at $61.20.
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Sonoco Products saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,070,000 shares, an increase of 23.7% from the December 31st total of 865,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 463,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.1% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 8th 2023.
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Sonoco Products will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 9th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 20th. The industrial products company reported $0.91 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.89 by $0.02. The industrial products company had revenue of $1.42 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.37 billion. Sonoco Products had a net margin of 6.19% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 31.56%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 7.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.86 earnings per share.

Sonoco Products announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 19th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.49 per share on Friday, December 9th. This represents a $1.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.20%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 9th.
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Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.28%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 40 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 44.55%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SON will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.50% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Sonoco Products issued an update on its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Monday, November, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.20-$1.30 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.25. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

54 employees have rated Sonoco Products Chief Executive Officer R. Howard Coker on Glassdoor.com. R. Howard Coker has an approval rating of 86% among the company's employees.

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Sonoco Products trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SON."

Sonoco Products' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Hallmark Capital Management Inc. (0.36%), AE Wealth Management LLC (0.22%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.11%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.10%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.07%) and Comerica Bank (0.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Ernest D Haynes III, Ernest D Haynes III, Harold G Cummings III, James A Harrell III, Jeffrey S Tomaszewski, John M Florence, John M Florence, Julie C Albrecht, Rodger D Fuller and Roger P Schrum.
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One share of SON stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.20.

Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) has a market capitalization of $5.97 billion and generates $7.01 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $-85,480,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $4.40 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 20,500 workers across the globe.

Sonoco Products' mailing address is 1 NORTH SECOND STREET, HARTSVILLE SC, 29550. The official website for the company is www.sonoco.com. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (843) 383-7000, via email at roger.schrum@sonoco.com, or via fax at 512-416-9669.