SON vs. PKG, GPK, SEE, UFPT, GEF.B, SW, TRMB, CNH, ZBRA, and BALL
Should you be buying Sonoco Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sonoco Products include Packaging Co. of America (PKG), Graphic Packaging (GPK), Sealed Air (SEE), UFP Technologies (UFPT), Greif (GEF.B), Smurfit Westrock (SW), Trimble (TRMB), CNH GLOBAL N V Foreign (CNH), Zebra Technologies (ZBRA), and Ball (BALL).
Sonoco Products vs. Its Competitors
Sonoco Products (NYSE:SON) and Packaging Co. of America (NYSE:PKG) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
Sonoco Products has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Packaging Co. of America has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Packaging Co. of America has higher revenue and earnings than Sonoco Products. Packaging Co. of America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sonoco Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Packaging Co. of America had 15 more articles in the media than Sonoco Products. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Packaging Co. of America and 2 mentions for Sonoco Products. Packaging Co. of America's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Sonoco Products' score of 1.06 indicating that Packaging Co. of America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sonoco Products received 139 more outperform votes than Packaging Co. of America when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.05% of users gave Sonoco Products an outperform vote while only 59.25% of users gave Packaging Co. of America an outperform vote.
77.7% of Sonoco Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Packaging Co. of America shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Sonoco Products shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Packaging Co. of America shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Packaging Co. of America has a net margin of 9.60% compared to Sonoco Products' net margin of 2.60%. Sonoco Products' return on equity of 20.81% beat Packaging Co. of America's return on equity.
Sonoco Products pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Packaging Co. of America pays an annual dividend of $5.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Sonoco Products pays out 137.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Packaging Co. of America pays out 52.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sonoco Products has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Sonoco Products is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Sonoco Products presently has a consensus price target of $56.25, indicating a potential upside of 24.45%. Packaging Co. of America has a consensus price target of $222.17, indicating a potential upside of 14.98%. Given Sonoco Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sonoco Products is more favorable than Packaging Co. of America.
Summary
Packaging Co. of America beats Sonoco Products on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:SON) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
