NYSE:BLL - Ball Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Ball declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 24th. Investors of record on Monday, December 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.10 per share on Monday, December 17th. This represents a $0.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 30th. 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 minted shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes 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 plan on Wednesday, April 25th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback 25,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Ball Co. (NYSE:BLL) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The industrial products company reported $0.56 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.60 by $0.04. The industrial products company earned $2.95 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.80 billion. Ball had a net margin of 4.21% and a return on equity of 20.02%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 1.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.52 EPS. View Ball's Earnings History.

Ball is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Ball.

13 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Ball's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $55.00. On average, they expect Ball's share price to reach $51.7273 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ball.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Ball.

News articles about BLL stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ball earned a media sentiment score of 1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

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Ball's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.77%), BlackRock Inc. (6.31%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.07%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (2.60%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (2.12%) and Putnam Investments LLC (1.51%). Company insiders that own Ball stock include Charles E Baker, Daniel J Heinrich, Daniel William Fisher, James N Peterson, Jeff A Knobel, John A Hayes, Lisa Ann Pauley, R David Hoover, Robert D Strain and Scott C Morrison. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ball.

BLL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Victory Capital Management Inc., FMR LLC, Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Deutsche Bank AG and Vanguard Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Ball company stock in the last year include Charles E Baker, 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 Dodge & Cox, Dodge & Cox, Putnam Investments LLC, Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Morgan Stanley, Janus Henderson Group PLC and Westpac Banking Corp. Company insiders that have bought Ball stock in the last two years include Daniel J Heinrich and Daniel William Fisher. 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 $47.83.

Ball has a market capitalization of $16.41 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.

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

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]