NYSE:SON - Sonoco Products Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Sonoco Products declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 13th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.43 per share on Tuesday, March 10th. This represents a $1.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.03%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 25th. View Sonoco Products' Dividend History.

Sonoco Products Co (NYSE:SON) posted its earnings results on Thursday, February, 13th. The industrial products company reported $0.75 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.75. The industrial products company earned $1.31 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.34 billion. Sonoco Products had a net margin of 5.43% and a return on equity of 19.51%. The company's revenue was down 3.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.84 EPS. View Sonoco Products' Earnings History.

Sonoco Products is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 16th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Sonoco Products.

Sonoco Products issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 13th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.60-$3.70 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.64.

10 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Sonoco Products' shares. Their forecasts range from $56.00 to $68.00. On average, they expect Sonoco Products' share price to reach $61.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Sonoco Products.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sonoco Products in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Sonoco Products.

Headlines about SON stock have trended very negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Sonoco Products earned a coverage optimism score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Sonoco Products.

Sonoco Products saw a drop in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,680,000 shares, a drop of 8.5% from the January 15th total of 2,930,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 369,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.2 days. Approximately 2.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Sonoco Products' Current Options Chain.

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Sonoco Products' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (6.88%), Bank of America Corp DE (2.07%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.56%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.55%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.35%) and First Trust Advisors LP (0.89%). Company insiders that own Sonoco Products stock include Allan H Mcleland, Barry L Saunders, Harold G Cummings III, James A Harrell III, Kevin P Mahoney, 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 LSV Asset Management, Bank of America Corp DE, DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Schroder Investment Management Group, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC and Pacer Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Sonoco Products company stock in the last year include Harold G Cummings III, James A Harrell III, Kevin P Mahoney, Marcy J Thompson, R Howard Coker, Rodger D Fuller and Roger P Schrum. View Insider Buying and Selling for Sonoco Products.

SON stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Anchor Capital Advisors LLC, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., OLD Republic International Corp, First Trust Advisors LP, Earnest Partners LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc. and Victory Capital Management Inc.. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SON stock can currently be purchased for approximately $56.80.

Sonoco Products has a market capitalization of $5.69 billion and generates $5.37 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $291.79 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.53 on an earnings per share basis. Sonoco Products employs 23,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Sonoco Products.

The official website for Sonoco Products is http://www.sonoco.com/.

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]