Ball (BALL) Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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11 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Ball's shares. Their BALL share price forecasts range from $51.00 to $63.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $57.85 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.0% 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 stock has decreased by 4.9% and is now trading at $48.63.
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Ball saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 16,410,000 shares, an increase of 11.3% from the August 15th total of 14,750,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,770,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.3 days. Approximately 5.2% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 2nd 2023.
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Ball Co. (NYSE:BALL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 3rd. The company reported $0.61 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.59 by $0.02. The firm earned $3.57 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.84 billion. Ball had a net margin of 5.48% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.43%. Ball's quarterly revenue was down 13.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.82 EPS.

Ball declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 26th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, September 15th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.65%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 31st.
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Ball (NYSE:BALL) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.59%. The dividend payout ratio is 31.75%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BALL will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.60% 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.37%), Parnassus Investments LLC (6.47%), State Street Corp (4.43%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (2.76%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.10%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.83%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia A Niekamp, Daniel William Fisher, David A Kaufman, Deron Goodwin 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 $48.63.

Ball (NYSE:BALL) has a market capitalization of $15.32 billion and generates $14.55 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $719 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.52 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.