Sonoco Products Co. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

November 2024 | 50 pages | ID: SEC777360E2BEN
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Abstracts

Sonoco Products Co. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Sonoco Products Co. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Sonoco Products Co. position in the Packaging and Containers Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Sonoco Products Co. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
• Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for Sonoco Products Co.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
• The Sonoco Products Co. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
• In the part that describes Sonoco Products Co. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
• Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of Sonoco Products Co. business.

About Sonoco Products Co.

Sonoco Products Company manufactures industrial and consumer packaging products. The company also provides packaging services with 312 locations in 35 countries. It sells its products in various markets, including paper, textile, film, food, chemical, packaging, construction, and wire and cable.

Segments

The company operates in three segments: Consumer Packaging; Tubes and Cores/Paper; and Packaging Services.

Consumer Packaging Segment

The Consumer Packaging segment offers products and services, such as rigid packaging – paper products, such as round and shaped composite paperboard cans, single-wrap paperboard packages, and fiber cartridges; rigid packaging – blow molded plastics, such as monolayer and multilayer bottles and jars; rigid packaging – thermoformed plastic products, such as monolayer, coated and barrier and non-barrier laminated tubs, cups, and consumer and institutional trays; and ends and closures, such as aluminum, steel and peelable membrane closures for composite, metal, and plastic containers. It also offers printed flexible packaging made from thin-gauge, value-added rotogravure, flexographic and combination printed film, including laminations, rotogravure cylinder engraving, and global brand artwork management.

Tubes and Cores/Paper Segment

The Tubes and Cores/Paper segment offers products and services, such as tubes and cores, including paperboard tubes, cores, roll packaging, molded plugs, pallets, pallet components, concrete forms, void forms, and rotary die boards; and paper products, including recycled paperboard, chipboard, tubeboard, corestock, boxboard, linerboard, corrugating medium, specialty grades, and recovered paper. It also recycles old corrugated containers, paper, plastic, metal, glass, and other recyclable materials.

Packaging Services Segment

The Packaging Services segment includes packaging supply chain management, including custom packing, fulfillment, primary package filling, and service centers. It also involves in designing, manufacturing, assembling, packing, and distributing temporary, semi-permanent and permanent point-of-purchase (P-O-P) displays, as well as contract packaging, co-packing, and fulfillment services

All Other Sonoco

All Other Sonoco includes the following products and services: wire and cable reels, such as steel, nailed wooden, plywood, recycled, and polyfiber reels; molded and extruded plastics, such as product design, tool design and fabrication; spools; manufacturing in both injection molding and extrusion technologies; and paperboard specialties, including custom-printed Stancap glass covers, Rixie coasters, and other paper amenities. It also offers protective packaging services, such as proprietary Sonopost technology, Sonobase carriers and Sonopop systems, concept, design, testing and manufacturing of multimaterial total solutions packaging, on-site engineering, ISTA- and Sears-certified engineering and testing facilities, and contract testing facilities.

Customers

The company’s major customer, in 2009, was Procter & Gamble.

Markets

The company has operations throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

History

Sonoco Products Company, formerly known as Southern Novelty Company, was founded in 1899.

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Sonoco Products Co. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Sonoco Products Co. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Sonoco Products Co. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Sonoco Products Co. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Packaging and Containers Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Sonoco Products Co. Industry Position Analysis

6. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS²

9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors

10. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. SONOCO PRODUCTS CO. VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

Sonoco Products Co. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
Sonoco Products Co. 1-year Stock Charts
Sonoco Products Co. 5-year Stock Charts
Sonoco Products Co. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Sonoco Products Co. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Sonoco Products Co. Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Sonoco Products Co. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Sonoco Products Co. Key Executives
Sonoco Products Co. Major Shareholders
Sonoco Products Co. History
Sonoco Products Co. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Sonoco Products Co. Offices and Representations
Sonoco Products Co. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Sonoco Products Co. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Sonoco Products Co. Capital Market Snapshot
Sonoco Products Co. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Packaging and Containers Industry Statistics
Sonoco Products Co. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Sonoco Products Co. Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

ANALYSIS FEATURES

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?