SON vs SEB 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.

Seaboard Corp is a diversified group of companies that operate in agricultural, energy, and ocean transport businesses. The company is engaged in hog production, biofuel production, and pork processing in the United States; commodity trading and grain processing in Africa and South America; cargo shipping services in the U.S., Caribbean and Central and South America; sugar and alcohol production in Argentina; and electric power generation in the Dominican Republic. It also has an equity method investment in Butterball, LLC, a producer and processor of turkey products. The group's operating segments are; pork, commodity trading and milling, marine, liquid fuels, power, turkey, and others. It operates in 45 countries, with a concentration in the Caribbean, Central and South American region.