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BALL vs. CCK, SW, GEF.B, AMBP, JBDI, SLGN, GWW, FERG, OTIS, and IR

Should you be buying Ball stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ball include Crown (CCK), Smurfit Westrock (SW), Greif Bros. (GEF.B), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), JBDI (JBDI), Silgan (SLGN), W.W. Grainger (GWW), Ferguson (FERG), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), and Ingersoll Rand (IR).

Ball vs. Its Competitors

Crown (NYSE:CCK) and Ball (NYSE:BALL) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Crown currently has a consensus target price of $120.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.06%. Ball has a consensus target price of $64.64, suggesting a potential upside of 9.58%. Given Crown's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Crown is more favorable than Ball.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Crown
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.69
Ball
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.58

In the previous week, Crown had 12 more articles in the media than Ball. MarketBeat recorded 63 mentions for Crown and 51 mentions for Ball. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Ball's score of 0.30 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Crown
14 Very Positive mention(s)
13 Positive mention(s)
23 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ball
12 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
17 Neutral mention(s)
9 Negative mention(s)
7 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Ball has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Crown. Crown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ball, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Crown$11.80B1.02$424M$4.7621.65
Ball$11.80B1.39$4.01B$1.6835.11

Crown has a net margin of 4.64% compared to Ball's net margin of 4.18%. Crown's return on equity of 27.15% beat Ball's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Crown4.64% 27.15% 6.08%
Ball 4.18%15.41%5.29%

Crown has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ball has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

90.9% of Crown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.5% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Crown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ball shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Crown pays out 21.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ball pays out 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Crown has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Summary

Crown beats Ball on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BALL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BALL vs. The Competition

MetricBallCONTNRS IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$16.36B$11.43B$7.80B$21.10B
Dividend Yield1.34%1.25%4.55%3.58%
P/E Ratio35.1025.7925.5227.85
Price / Sales1.391.14104.2660.47
Price / Cash11.1410.1627.9723.00
Price / Book2.973.174.474.69
Net Income$4.01B$1.57B$795.63M$994.49M
7 Day Performance2.04%-0.24%1.35%1.57%
1 Month Performance3.91%1.56%6.64%5.84%
1 Year Performance-4.94%11.46%32.78%11.42%

Ball Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BALL
Ball
3.4184 of 5 stars
$59.03
+0.1%
$64.64
+9.5%
-4.9%$16.38B$11.80B35.1416,000Trending News
CCK
Crown
4.411 of 5 stars
$104.71
-1.4%
$119.45
+14.1%
+22.6%$12.19B$11.90B22.5223,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
SW
Smurfit Westrock
4.356 of 5 stars
$45.39
+1.2%
$57.90
+27.6%
-1.6%$23.69B$21.11B37.20100,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
GEF.B
Greif Bros.
N/A$68.54
+0.2%
N/A+3.1%$3.25B$5.52B18.9312,000
AMBP
Ardagh Metal Packaging
2.7549 of 5 stars
$4.53
-1.0%
$4.52
-0.1%
+2.8%$2.70B$4.91B-113.136,300Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
JBDI
JBDI
N/A$0.99
-1.5%
N/AN/A$19.49M$9.39M0.00121Positive News
SLGN
Silgan
4.6061 of 5 stars
$54.97
-0.4%
$63.78
+16.0%
+19.5%$5.88B$6.00B20.4312,800Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
GWW
W.W. Grainger
3.3494 of 5 stars
$1,022.38
-0.6%
$1,116.25
+9.2%
+12.8%$49.12B$17.17B26.2526,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
FERG
Ferguson
0.5765 of 5 stars
$220.25
-1.1%
N/AN/A$43.43B$29.64B27.4635,000
OTIS
Otis Worldwide
4.8073 of 5 stars
$98.45
-1.0%
$104.63
+6.3%
-2.3%$38.85B$14.26B25.8472,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.2804 of 5 stars
$83.95
-1.9%
$100.92
+20.2%
-9.2%$33.87B$7.28B41.5621,000Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement

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This page (NYSE:BALL) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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