Ball Corporation supplies metal packaging products to the beverage, food, personal care, and household products industries. It operates in five segments: Beverage Packaging, North and Central America; Beverage Packaging, South America; Beverage Packaging, Europe; Food and Aerosol Packaging; and Aerospace. The Beverage Packaging, North and Central America segment manufactures and sells metal beverage containers to fillers of carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and other beverages. The Beverage Packaging, South America segment offers metal beverage containers. The Beverage Packaging, Europe segment manufactures and supplies aluminum beverage containers. The Food and Aerosol Packaging segment provides steel food containers and ends for packaging vegetables, fruits, soups, meat, seafood, nutritional products, pet food, and other products; and extruded aluminum aerosol containers and aluminum slugs. The Aerospace segment develops spacecraft, sensors and instruments, radio frequency systems, data exploitation solutions, and other technologies and products for the civil, commercial, and cyber security aerospace markets, as well as offers defense hardware, antenna and video tactical solutions, civil and operational space hardware, and systems engineering services. It also designs, manufactures, and tests satellites, remote sensors, and ground station control hardware and software; and provides launch vehicle integration and satellite operational services. In addition, this segment provides target identification, warning, and attitude control systems and components; cryogenic systems and associated sensor cooling devices; star trackers; and fast-steering mirrors, as well as technical services and products to the government agencies, prime contractors, and commercial organizations for a range of information and electronic warfare, avionics, intelligence, training, and space system needs. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Stock Exchange NYSE
Industry Metal cans
Sub-IndustryMetal & Glass Containers
SectorIndustrial Products
SymbolNYSE:BLL
CUSIP05849810
Phone303-469-3131
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio1.79
Current Ratio1.23
Quick Ratio0.92
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio22.01
Forward P/E Ratio19.93
P/E Growth3.6
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$10.98 billion
Price / Sales1.40
Cash Flow$4.1877 per share
Price / Cash10.71
Book Value$11.56 per share
Price / Book3.88
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$2.04
Net Income$374 million
Net Margins4.12%
Return on Equity19.93%
Return on Assets4.54%
Miscellaneous
Employees18,300
Outstanding Shares343,910,000
Market Cap$15.33 billion
