NYSE:BLL - Ball Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Ball announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.10 per share on Friday, June 15th. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.05%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 31st. View Ball's Dividend History.

Shares of Ball split on the morning of Wednesday, May 17th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, April 26th 2017. The newly issued shares were distributed 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 has initiated a share repurchase program on Wednesday, April 25th 2018, which permits the company to buyback 25,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Ball Co. (NYSE:BLL) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 3rd. The industrial products company reported $0.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.45 by $0.05. The industrial products company earned $2.79 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.58 billion. Ball had a net margin of 4.04% and a return on equity of 19.86%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 12.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.38 EPS. View Ball's Earnings History.

Ball is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August, 2nd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Ball.

11 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Ball's shares. Their forecasts range from $36.00 to $50.00. On average, they expect Ball's stock price to reach $45.1818 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 18.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Ball.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

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Press coverage about BLL stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Ball earned a media sentiment score of 0.19 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the industrial products company an impact score of 44.70 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Ball's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Manning & Napier Group LLC (1.12%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.14%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.05%), Huntington National Bank (0.04%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.04%) and NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.03%). Company insiders that own Ball stock include Cynthia A Niekamp, Daniel J Heinrich, Daniel William Fisher, Erik Bouts, George M Smart, James N Peterson, Jeff A Knobel, John A Hayes, Lisa Ann Pauley, Pedro Henrique Mariani, R David Hoover, Robert D Strain, Robert W Alspaugh, Scott C Morrison and Shawn M Barker. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ball.

BLL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Hartford Investment Management Co., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Huntington National Bank, Townsend & Associates Inc, Retirement Systems of Alabama and Amalgamated Bank. Company insiders that have sold Ball company stock in the last year include James N Peterson, Jeff A Knobel, John A Hayes, Lisa Ann Pauley, R David Hoover, Robert D Strain and Scott C Morrison. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ball.

BLL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., James Investment Research Inc., Addenda Capital Inc., Addenda Capital Inc., Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan, Highland Capital Management LLC, Calamos Advisors LLC and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd. Company insiders that have bought Ball stock in the last two years include Cynthia A Niekamp, Daniel J Heinrich, Daniel William Fisher, Erik Bouts, George M Smart, John A Hayes, Pedro Henrique Mariani and Robert W Alspaugh. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BLL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.27.

Ball has a market capitalization of $13.36 billion and generates $10.98 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $374 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.04 on an earnings per share basis. Ball employs 18,300 workers across the globe.

Ball's mailing address is 10 Longs Peak Drive, Broomfield CO, 80038. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 303-469-3131 or via email at [email protected]