# Sonoco Products Company (SON) FY2026 YTD Q2 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: Sonoco Products Company (SON)
- Period: 2026-01-01 to 2026-06-28
- Filing: Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-07-28, accession number 0000091767-26-000038
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/son/fy2026-ytd-q2-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/son-fy2026-ytd-q2-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2026 through Jun 28, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2025. Ending cash: Jun 28, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2025**: 378,398,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: negative 67,308,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Net income**: 172,649,000 US dollars
- **Asset impairments**: 3,626,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization**: 256,125,000 US dollars
- **Share-based compensation expense**: 11,905,000 US dollars
- **Equity in earnings of affiliates, net of tax**: negative 2,953,000 US dollars
- **Cash dividends from affiliated companies**: 4,360,000 US dollars
- **Net loss on disposition of assets**: 1,397,000 US dollars
- **Net gain on divestiture of business**: negative 775,000 US dollars
- **Pension and postretirement plan expense**: 7,841,000 US dollars
- **Pension and postretirement plan contributions**: negative 10,397,000 US dollars
- **Net increase/(decrease) in deferred taxes**: 2,516,000 US dollars
- **Trade accounts receivable**: negative 180,618,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: negative 152,106,000 US dollars
- **Payable to suppliers**: 31,607,000 US dollars
- **Prepaid expenses**: negative 33,641,000 US dollars
- **Income taxes payable and other income tax items**: negative 100,698,000 US dollars
- **Accrued expenses and other assets and liabilities**: negative 78,146,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 132,497,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Purchases of property, plant and equipment**: negative 125,756,000 US dollars
- **Cost of acquisition, net of cash acquired**: 0 US dollars
- **Proceeds from the sale of business, net**: negative 13,076,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from the sale of assets, net**: 1,883,000 US dollars
- **Investments in affiliated companies and other net investing proceeds**: 4,452,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: 7,131,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Proceeds from issuance of debt**: 38,690,000 US dollars
- **Principal repayment of debt**: negative 38,106,000 US dollars
- **Net change in commercial paper**: 116,000,000 US dollars
- **Net increase in book cash overdrafts**: 3,854,000 US dollars
- **Payment of loan financing costs**: negative 506,000 US dollars
- **Dividends paid to noncontrolling interests**: 0 US dollars
- **Cash dividends**: negative 105,790,000 US dollars
- **Payments for share repurchases**: negative 7,011,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 559,334,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 158,544,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 138,832,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: negative 17,076,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Jun 28, 2026**: 168,648,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 385,529,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 209,750,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: −0.39×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: negative 67,308,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 125,756,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: negative 193,064,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income or operating cash is negative. The full signed reconciliation is retained: losses remain deductions, and any negative operating-cash total enters the junction from the cash pool. No positive direct-income connection is implied.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: negative 67,308,000 US dollars minus 125,756,000 US dollars equals negative 193,064,000 US dollars.