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Sonoco Products Company Q3 2025 earnings summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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Q3 2025 earnings summary23 Oct, 2025

Executive summary

  • Achieved record Q3 2025 revenue and profit, with net sales up 57% to $2.13 billion, driven by the Metal Packaging EMEA (Eviosys) acquisition and strong pricing, despite global macroeconomic pressures.

  • Adjusted EBITDA increased 37% to $386 million, with margin reaching a record 18.1%.

  • Consumer packaging sales and operating profit grew 117%, with adjusted EBITDA up 112% year-over-year.

  • Industrial packaging operating profit rose 28%, with adjusted EBITDA up 21% and eight consecutive quarters of margin improvement.

  • Announced sale of ThermoSafe for up to $725 million, with proceeds to reduce debt and further streamline operations.

Financial highlights

  • Adjusted EPS was $1.92, up 29% year-over-year, driven by favorable price-cost performance and productivity gains.

  • Operating cash flow was $292 million, up 80% year-over-year.

  • Gross capital investments for the quarter were $65 million, with annual capital spending tracking below the $360 million target.

  • For the first nine months, net sales were $5.75 billion (up 46%), and adjusted EBITDA was $1.05 billion (up 33%).

  • Free cash flow for the first nine months was $29 million, down from $171 million in the prior year, due to higher working capital needs.

Outlook and guidance

  • Full-year 2025 net sales guidance tightened to $7.8–$7.9 billion; adjusted EBITDA guidance narrowed to $1.3–$1.35 billion; adjusted EPS range reduced to $5.65–$5.75.

  • Operating cash flow guidance adjusted to $700–$750 million.

  • Volume weakness anticipated in Q4, especially in Metal Packaging and Industrial EMEA, due to macroeconomic headwinds.

  • Investor Day scheduled for February 17, 2026, to outline a three-year growth roadmap.

  • Guidance includes twelve months of projected ThermoSafe results.

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Sonoco Products Company, manufactures and sells industrial and consumer packaging products. It offers products and services under the Sonoco brand name. The company's Industrial Packaging segment provides pre-formed plastic and metal products for use in machinery and car production, food and beverage containers, pharmaceuticals, general industrial applications, military defense applications, motor sports, aerospace and other miscellaneous applications; rigid plastic tubs for packing soups, ice cream, salad dressings and dips; corrugated packaging; beverage cans; boxes; wine bottle carriers; aerosol can packing systems; resin and steel shipping containers; plastic pipe to transport water and oil; palletes of various sizes; bags made of PP film to contain transportation of glass or other materials. Sonoco Products Company is based in Hartsville, South Carolina.

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