We View Sonoco's Purchase of Peninsula Packaging as Value-Neutral; Maintaining $40 Fair Value
Sonoco's purchase of Peninsula Packaging makes sense as a bolt-on acquisition. Peninsula specializes in fresh-food thermoformed packaging, the clear plastic packaging used in grocery stores on everything from strawberries to precut lettuce. The business should add around $190 million in annual sales to Sonoco's consumer packaging segment, starting in the second quarter of 2017. We view Sonoco's acquisition of Peninsula Packaging as value-neutral, and our $40 fair value estimate is unchanged.Alt...
Sonoco Products is a manufacturer of industrial and consumer packaging products and a provider of packaging services. The company's segments are: Consumer Packaging, which includes round composite cans, shaped rigid paperboard containers, fiber and plastic caulk/adhesive tubes, aluminum, steel and peelable membrane easy-open closures for composite and metal cans; Paper and Industrial Converted Products, which include recycled paperboard, chipboard, tubeboard, lightweight corestock, boxboard, linerboard, corrugating medium, edgeboard, paper grades, and adhesives; Display and Packaging, which include point-of-purchase displays; and Protective Solutions, which include packaging and components.
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