Growth Metrics

Sonoco Products (SON) Operating Margin (2016 - 2026)

Sonoco Products filings provide 18 years of Operating Margin readings, the most recent being 7.58% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 16.0% to 7.58% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 13.6%, a 692.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 13.54%, up 738.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin hit 7.58% in Q1 2026 for Sonoco Products, down from 29.43% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 29.43% in Q4 2025 to a low of 0.64% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 9.15% (2025), compared with a mean of 9.72%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: tumbled -1101bps in 2024 and later skyrocketed 2531bps in 2025.
  • Sonoco Products' Operating Margin stood at 5.22% in 2022, then tumbled by -88bps to 0.64% in 2023, then soared by 539bps to 4.11% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 615bps to 29.43% in 2025, then crashed by -74bps to 7.58% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 7.58% (Q1 2026), 29.43% (Q4 2025), and 9.15% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.