NYSE:SON - Sonoco Products Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

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

Sonoco Products announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 18th. Investors of record on Friday, August 10th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Monday, September 10th. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.93%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 9th. View Sonoco Products' Dividend History.

Sonoco Products Co (NYSE:SON) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 19th. The industrial products company reported $0.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.86 by $0.07. The industrial products company earned $1.37 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.34 billion. Sonoco Products had a net margin of 4.57% and a return on equity of 18.01%. Sonoco Products's quarterly revenue was up 10.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.71 EPS. View Sonoco Products' Earnings History.

Sonoco Products is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 18th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Sonoco Products.

Sonoco Products issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 19th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.27-3.37 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.28. Sonoco Products also updated its Q3 guidance to $0.82-0.88 EPS.

7 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Sonoco Products' shares. Their forecasts range from $48.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect Sonoco Products' stock price to reach $56.1667 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Sonoco Products.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sonoco Products in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Sonoco Products.

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Headlines about SON stock have trended somewhat positive on Tuesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Sonoco Products earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.17 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the industrial products company an impact score of 48.17 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Sonoco Products.

Sonoco Products' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (10.89%), American Century Companies Inc. (3.19%), Bank of America Corp DE (2.19%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.44%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.37%) and FMR LLC (0.92%). Company insiders that own Sonoco Products stock include Allan H Mcleland, Barry L Saunders, James A Harrell III, John E Linville, Kevin P Mahoney, Mancil J Sanders, Marcy J Thompson, R Howard Coker, Rodger D Fuller, Roger P Schrum and Vicki B Arthur. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Sonoco Products.

SON stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Janus Henderson Group PLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Citadel Advisors LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, FMR LLC, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Paloma Partners Management Co and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Sonoco Products company stock in the last year include Allan H Mcleland, Barry L Saunders, Kevin P Mahoney, Marcy J Thompson, R Howard Coker, Rodger D Fuller, Roger P Schrum and Vicki B Arthur. View Insider Buying and Selling for Sonoco Products.

SON stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Victory Capital Management Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., BlackRock Inc., WBI Investments Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Bank of America Corp DE, BB&T Corp and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Sonoco Products.

Shares of SON can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SON stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.01.

Sonoco Products has a market capitalization of $5.51 billion and generates $5.04 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $175.34 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.79 on an earnings per share basis. Sonoco Products employs 21,000 workers across the globe.

Sonoco Products' mailing address is 1 NORTH SECOND STREET, HARTSVILLE SC, 29550. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 843-383-7000 or via email at [email protected]