SON Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Sonoco Products Company | NYSE:SON)

Sonoco Products Co is engaged in the manufacture and supply of consumer and industrial packaging products, offering paper, metal, and plastic packaging solutions across multiple end markets. The company has two reportable segments: Consumer Packaging and Industrial Paper Packaging. The Consumer Packaging segment provides rigid packaging solutions mainly for food, beverage, household, personal care, and pharmaceutical products, while the Industrial Paper Packaging segment produces paper-based packaging materials such as tubes, cores, and protective packaging, supported by paper mills and recycling operations, serving industrial and consumer markets. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Consumer Packaging segment.

Sonoco Products Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SON.

As of October 23, 2026, SON stock price declined to $50.12 with 2,217,691 million shares trading.

SON has a beta of 0.36, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SON has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SON has a market cap of $4.96 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Sonoco Products Company reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.67 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-47 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.14.

In the last 3 years, SON traded as high as $61.73 and as low as $38.65.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SON belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, DVY, AVUV.

SON has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +26.0% while the SPY ETF gained +14.9%. However, in the short term, SON had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -8.1% vs +1.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SON shares have fared better than the market returning +3.6% compared to SPY -1.8%.

SON support price is $49.50 and resistance is $51.04 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that SON shares will trade within this expected range on the day.