Ball (BALL) Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" BALL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BALL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Ball's shares. Their BALL share price forecasts range from $50.00 to $65.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $56.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.0% from the stock's current price.
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Ball's stock was trading at $51.14 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BALL shares have increased by 1.7% and is now trading at $52.01.
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Ball saw a drop in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 16,530,000 shares, a drop of 5.7% from the April 30th total of 17,520,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,670,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.9 days. Currently, 5.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 3rd 2023.
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Ball Co. (NYSE:BALL) released its earnings results on Thursday, May, 4th. The company reported $0.69 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.49 by $0.20. The firm earned $3.49 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.57 billion. Ball had a net margin of 2.98% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.92%. Ball's revenue was down 6.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.77 earnings per share.

Ball announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 26th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 1st will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, June 15th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.54%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 31st.
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Ball (NYSE:BALL) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.49%. The dividend payout ratio is 56.34%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BALL will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.12% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Ball trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BALL."

Ball's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.43%), Parnassus Investments LLC (6.43%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.71%), State Street Corp (4.38%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.13%) and Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (1.86%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia A Niekamp, Daniel William Fisher and John A Hayes.
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Shares of BALL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of BALL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.01.

Ball (NYSE:BALL) has a market capitalization of $16.36 billion and generates $15.35 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $719 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.42 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 21,000 workers across the globe.

Ball's mailing address is 9200 West 108th Circle P.O. Box 5000 Westminster, CO 80021-2510 United States. The official website for the company is www.ball.com. The company can be reached via phone at (303) 469-3131, via email at ascott@ball.com, or via fax at 303-460-2127.