Sonoco Products Co (SON) EPS is poised to hit 1.42 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

As on Thursday, Sonoco Products Co (NYSE: SON) started slowly as it slid -1.16% to $47.83, before settling in for the price of $48.39 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, SON posted a 52-week range of $44.35-$61.73.

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In the past 5-years timespan, the Consumer Cyclical sector firm’s annual sales growth was 1.30%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -10.55%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 21.76%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $98.26 million, simultaneously with a float of $97.53 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $4.72 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $47.31, while the 200-day Moving Average is $51.21.

Sonoco Products Co (SON) Ownership Facts and Figures

Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Packaging & Containers industry. Sonoco Products Co’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.11%, in contrast to 80.19% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 13 ’25, this organization’s President & CEO bought 20,000 shares at the rate of 46.10, making the entire transaction reach 922,000 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 482,365. Preceding that transaction, on Feb 27 ’25, Company’s Director bought 3,000 for 46.76, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 140,270. This particular insider is now the holder of 18,558 in total.

Sonoco Products Co (SON) Earnings and Revenue Records

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.53 per share during the current fiscal year.

Sonoco Products Co’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 21.76% and is forecasted to reach 6.40 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 11.52% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -10.55% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Sonoco Products Co (NYSE: SON) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Sonoco Products Co (SON). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.54. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.25. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $29.02, and its Beta score is 0.62. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.75. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 10.71.

In the same vein, SON’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 1.65, a figure that is expected to reach 1.42 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 6.40 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Sonoco Products Co (SON)

Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Sonoco Products Co, SON], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.0 million was better the volume of 0.84 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 80.04% While, its Average True Range was 1.28.

Raw Stochastic average of Sonoco Products Co (SON) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 37.23%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 76.72% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 28.64% that was higher than 21.49% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.