Growth Metrics

Sonoco Products (SON) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Sonoco Products' Operating Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 29.43% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 2531.0% year-over-year to 29.43%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 13.54%, up 738.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 13.54%, 738.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 29.43% in Q4 2025 per SON's latest filing, up from 9.15% 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.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 9.63%, with a median of 9.04% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: plummeted -1101bps in 2024, then soared 2531bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 7.28% in 2021, then fell by -28bps to 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.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SON's Operating Margin are 29.43% (Q4 2025), 9.15% (Q3 2025), and 9.2% (Q2 2025).