NYSE:BLL - Ball Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Ball declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Monday, December 16th. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 29th. 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 created 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 declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, January 23rd 2019, which permits the company to buyback 50,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Ball Co. (NYSE:BLL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 31st. The industrial products company reported $0.70 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.72 by $0.02. The industrial products company earned $2.95 billion during 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 business's revenue for the quarter was up .2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.56 EPS. View Ball's Earnings History.

Ball is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Ball.

Ball will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

10 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Ball's stock. Their forecasts range from $58.10 to $87.00. On average, they expect Ball's stock price to reach $77.39 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ball.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 4 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 negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing 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 news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Ball.

Ball saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 7,640,000 shares, an increase of 6.3% from the December 15th total of 7,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,090,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.4% of the company's shares are short sold. 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), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Netflix (NFLX), Apache (APA), Home Depot (HD), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Visa (V), Walt Disney (DIS), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET) and AT&T (T).

Ball's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.81%), SPF Beheer BV (0.42%), AMI Asset Management Corp (0.25%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.14%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.11%) and Norris Perne & French LLP MI (0.10%). 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 Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Sciencast Management LP, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Strs Ohio and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. 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 Welch & Forbes LLC, AMI Asset Management Corp, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, SPF Beheer BV, Alpine Global Management LLC, Polianta Ltd and Landsberg Bennett & Dubbaneh LLC. 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 $73.96.

Ball has a market capitalization of $24.19 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]