Sonoco Products Company
Sonoco Products Company is classed by the SEC under Paperboard Containers & Boxes (industry code 2650), based in Hartsville, SC. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, it reported revenue of $7.5 billion and a profit of $1.0 billion (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a product business: prior from its industry code (SEC 2650, Paperboard Containers & Boxes); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 6.2 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 5.6 out of ten, present 6.8 out of ten, future 5.9 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 6.8 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 68th percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 5.3 out of ten. +4.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10. 53rd percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Shareholder treatment (past): 4.6 out of ten. Share count grew 0.3% a year. 27% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 3 sales, 9 purchases. 46th percentile among 18 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 6.0 out of ten. ROE 28%: 28¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 67%: owes 67¢ per asset dollar. 60th percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 7.7 out of ten. top 23% of 19 in its family; net margin 13.3%. 77th percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Leadership (present): 6.8 out of ten. top 32% of 13 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2020. 68th percentile among 13 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 4.2 out of ten. bottom 42% of 19 in its family for room to expand. 42nd percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Growth drivers (future): 6.1 out of ten. top 39% of 19 in its family for growth drivers. 61st percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Expectations vs reality (future): 9.3 out of ten. top 6% of 18 in its family for expectations against reality. 94th percentile among 18 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 for the period ended 2025-12-31 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-07-28 for the period ended 2026-06-28 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-07-22 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form SCHEDULE 13G, 2026-10-08. Filings on record since 1994. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Where the revenue comes from
By geography: United States 48%, EMEA 43%, Other 5%, APAC 3%, Canada 1%. As tagged in its annual report (Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-26).
Who runs it
Coker, R. Howard (President & CEO); Joachimczyk, Paul (CFO); Cheatham, Jerry A (Interim CFO); Fuller, Rodger D (Chief Operating Officer); White, Andrea B. (Chief Human Resources Officer); Cairns, Sean (Pres Consumer Pkg EMEA/APAC); Florence, John M (Gnl Council, Secy, VP); Harrell, James A. III (Pres. Global Ind. Paper Pkg.); Haynes, Ernest D III (Pres. Consumer Pkg Americas); Wood, Adam (VP Paper Products Europe); and 13 more. 23 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-10-05.
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