SON vs NEU Comparison

Over its 100-year-plus history, Sonoco Products has steadily assembled a diverse portfolio of industrial and consumer packaging product offerings such as flexible and rigid plastics, reels and spools, pallets, and composite cans. The company serves a variety of consumer and industrial end markets throughout North America. Sonoco has raised its dividend each year for more than 40 years.

NewMarket Corp is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells petroleum additives used in lubricating oils and fuels to enhance performance. The company operates through two segments: petroleum additives, mainly represented by Afton, where lubricant additives improve the efficiency and durability of base fluids and fuel additives help meet fuel specifications and improve fuel performance, and specialty materials, represented by AMPAC and Calca, including the antiknock compounds business of Ethyl, where primary raw materials include electricity, sodium chlorate, ammonia, chlorine, caustic, and hydrochloric acid, with graphite used in electrolytic cells. The company has operations in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and EMEAI regions.