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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

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

Crown has a net margin of 4.62% compared to Ball's net margin of 4.18%. Crown's return on equity of 26.98% beat Ball's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ball4.18% 15.41% 5.29%
Crown 4.62%26.98%5.82%

In the previous week, Ball had 27 more articles in the media than Crown. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Ball and 30 mentions for Crown. Crown's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Ball's score of 0.48 indicating that Crown is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ball
15 Very Positive mention(s)
10 Positive mention(s)
17 Neutral mention(s)
8 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Crown
14 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

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

Ball currently has a consensus price target of $61.40, suggesting a potential upside of 4.76%. Crown has a consensus price target of $113.27, suggesting a potential upside of 4.98%. Given Crown's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown is more favorable than Ball.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ball
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.64
Crown
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.82

Ball pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Crown pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Ball pays out 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown pays out 22.4% 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 raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Ball has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Ball$11.80B1.38$4.01B$1.6834.89
Crown$11.80B1.06$424M$4.6523.20

Summary

Crown beats Ball on 13 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$16.29B$11.64B$7.52B$20.72B
Dividend Yield1.36%1.24%4.53%3.71%
P/E Ratio34.8926.3924.9628.09
Price / Sales1.381.16118.7538.30
Price / Cash10.9810.2227.4522.53
Price / Book2.953.334.364.58
Net Income$4.01B$1.57B$791.63M$986.06M
7 Day Performance3.90%4.08%2.18%2.79%
1 Month Performance9.65%8.69%5.71%5.46%
1 Year Performance-1.73%28.76%31.83%15.06%

Ball Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BALL
Ball
2.8982 of 5 stars
$58.61
-0.2%
$61.40
+4.8%
-2.4%$16.29B$11.80B34.8916,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CCK
Crown
4.1246 of 5 stars
$102.87
-0.6%
$111.64
+8.5%
+48.6%$11.97B$11.80B22.1223,000Analyst Forecast
SW
Smurfit Westrock
4.4529 of 5 stars
$43.18
+0.3%
$58.40
+35.2%
N/A$22.54B$21.11B35.39100,000News Coverage
GEF.B
Greif Bros.
N/A$69.04
-1.8%
N/A+20.1%$3.28B$5.45B19.0712,000News Coverage
AMBP
Ardagh Metal Packaging
1.3861 of 5 stars
$4.30
flat
$3.64
-15.3%
+35.1%$2.57B$4.91B-107.506,300News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
JBDI
JBDI
N/A$1.05
+2.8%
N/AN/A$20.78M$9.39M0.00121
SLGN
Silgan
4.6153 of 5 stars
$54.18
-0.4%
$63.11
+16.5%
+35.3%$5.80B$5.85B20.1412,800
GWW
W.W. Grainger
3.4967 of 5 stars
$1,040.00
+1.1%
$1,123.13
+8.0%
+14.7%$49.96B$17.24B26.7026,000Positive News
FERG
Ferguson
2.5658 of 5 stars
$218.01
+0.0%
$221.27
+1.5%
+17.5%$42.99B$30.21B26.1735,000
OTIS
Otis Worldwide
3.657 of 5 stars
$99.04
+1.5%
$100.71
+1.7%
+3.1%$39.09B$14.26B25.9969,000Analyst Forecast
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.0015 of 5 stars
$83.28
-1.2%
$97.80
+17.4%
-4.4%$33.60B$7.24B41.2317,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:BALL) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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