Ball Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BALL)

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings 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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10 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Ball's stock. Their BALL share price targets range from $46.00 to $63.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $58.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.0% 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 6.7% and is now trading at $54.58.
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Ball saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 13,460,000 shares, a decline of 10.0% from the October 31st total of 14,950,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,060,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.5 days. Currently, 4.3% 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, February 1st 2024.
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Ball Co. (NYSE:BALL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 2nd. The company reported $0.83 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.82 by $0.01. The company earned $3.57 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.88 billion. Ball had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.44% and a net margin of 4.29%.

Ball declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, December 15th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.47%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 30th.
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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 41.67%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BALL will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.08% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Ball (NYSE:BALL) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RTM), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RSPM), VanEck Future of Food ETF (YUMY), Goldman Sachs Future Planet Equity ETF (GSFP), SPDR S&P Kensho Final Frontiers ETF (ROKT), Newday Ocean Health ETF (AHOY), Goldman Sachs Future Consumer Equity ETF (GBUY) and Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLB).

Ball's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Parnassus Investments LLC (6.37%), Morgan Stanley (2.97%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.86%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (1.62%), Northern Trust Corp (1.00%) and Jensen Investment Management Inc. (0.99%). 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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