NYSE:BLL - Ball Stock Price, Forecast & News

Ball trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BLL."

Ball announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Monday, December 16th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.94%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 29th. View Ball's Dividend History.

Shares of Ball split before market open on Wednesday, May 17th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, April 26th 2017. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Tuesday, May 16th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Ball stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Ball announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, January 23rd 2019, which authorizes the company to buyback 50,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Ball Co. (NYSE:BLL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The industrial products company reported $0.70 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.02. The industrial products company had revenue of $2.95 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.05 billion. Ball had a return on equity of 22.86% and a net margin of 4.82%. The company's revenue was up .2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.56 EPS. View Ball's Earnings History.

Ball is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Ball.

8 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Ball's stock. Their forecasts range from $58.10 to $87.00. On average, they anticipate Ball's share price to reach $77.02 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ball.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ball.

News stories about BLL stock have been trending somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ball earned a media sentiment score of 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Ball.

Ball saw a decline in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,730,000 shares, a decline of 10.2% from the October 31st total of 6,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,290,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Ball's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Ball include Crown (CCK), AptarGroup (ATR), Berry Global Group (BERY), Silgan (SLGN), Greif (GEF), Owens-Illinois (OI) and Myers Industries (MYE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Ball investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Apache (APA), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Home Depot (HD), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Visa (V), Netflix (NFLX), Walt Disney (DIS), Micron Technology (MU) and Activision Blizzard (ATVI).

Ball's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (4.45%), Chilton Investment Co. LLC (0.92%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.81%), SPF Beheer BV (0.40%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.38%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.38%). Company insiders that own Ball stock include Charles E Baker, Daniel William Fisher, James N Peterson, Jeff A Knobel, John A Hayes, Lisa Ann Pauley, Nate C Carey, R David Hoover, Robert D Strain, Scott C Morrison and Stuart A Taylor II. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ball.

BLL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Mackay Shields LLC, AMF Pensionsforsakring AB, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Squarepoint Ops LLC, British Airways Pensions Investment Management Ltd, SPF Beheer BV and Daiwa Securities Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Ball company stock in the last year include Charles E Baker, Daniel William Fisher, Jeff A Knobel, John A Hayes, Nate C Carey, Robert D Strain, Scott C Morrison and Stuart A Taylor II. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ball.

BLL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Tennessee Treasury Department, Eagle Asset Management Inc., AMG National Trust Bank, State Street Corp, Carillon Tower Advisers Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Russell Investments Group Ltd. and California Public Employees Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ball.

Shares of BLL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BLL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $64.13.

Ball has a market capitalization of $20.98 billion and generates $11.64 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $454 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.20 on an earnings per share basis. Ball employs 17,500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Ball.

The official website for Ball is http://www.ball.com/.

Ball's mailing address is 10 Longs Peak Drive, Broomfield CO, 80021. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 303-469-3131 or via email at [email protected]