Growth Metrics

Sonoco Products (SON) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Sonoco Products (SON) has disclosed Return on Sales for 17 consecutive years, with 0.2% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • For the quarter ending Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 23.0% year-over-year to 0.2%, compared with a TTM value of 0.07% through Dec 2025, up 6.0%, and an annual FY2025 reading of 0.08%, up 7.0% over the prior year.
  • Return on Sales was 0.2% for Q4 2025 at Sonoco Products, up from 0.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.2% in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 0.24% in Q3 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.03%, with a median of 0.04% recorded in 2021.
  • The sharpest move saw Return on Sales dropped -29bps in 2021, then soared 31bps in 2022.
  • Year by year, Return on Sales stood at 0.04% in 2021, then tumbled by -64bps to 0.02% in 2022, then tumbled by -443bps to 0.05% in 2023, then soared by 40bps to 0.03% in 2024, then surged by 728bps to 0.2% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Sales for SON at 0.2% in Q4 2025, 0.06% in Q3 2025, and 0.03% in Q2 2025.