Ball (BALL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ball in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" BALL shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BALL, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for Ball's stock. Their BALL share price targets range from $55.00 to $78.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $65.58 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.9% from the stock's current price.
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Ball's stock was trading at $57.52 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BALL stock has increased by 11.9% and is now trading at $64.35.
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Ball saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 10,770,000 shares, an increase of 5.2% from the February 29th total of 10,240,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,790,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.0 days. Approximately 3.4% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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Ball will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, April 26th at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Ball Co. (NYSE:BALL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 1st. The company reported $0.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.77 by $0.01. The business had revenue of $3.40 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.56 billion. Ball had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.81% and a net margin of 5.04%. The firm's revenue was down 4.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.44 EPS.

Ball declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 24th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, March 15th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.24%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 29th.
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Ball (NYSE:BALL) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.25%. The dividend payout ratio is 35.71%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BALL will have a dividend payout ratio of 22.92% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Ball's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Pensioenfonds Rail & OV (0.18%), CWM LLC (0.10%), Norris Perne & French LLP MI (0.09%), AMF Tjanstepension AB (0.05%), Addenda Capital Inc. (0.05%) and Jessup Wealth Management Inc (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia A Niekamp, Daniel William Fisher, David A Kaufman, Deron Goodwin, John A Hayes and Ronald J Lewis.
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Shares of BALL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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