Ball (BALL)
Aluminum packaging maker focused on beverage cans and adjacent personal-care containers.
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Ball sells aluminum packaging for beverage, personal care, and household-products customers. After selling Ball Aerospace, it reports mainly through regional beverage-packaging segments and depends on long customer contracts, plant capacity, and demand from drink fillers.
Ball makes aluminum packaging for beverage, personal care, and household-products customers, with its reportable business organized around beverage packaging in North and Central America, EMEA, and South America. The company is post-aerospace: after selling Ball Aerospace, its profile narrowed around regional can manufacturing, targeted packaging acquisitions, and non-reportable personal and household packaging activities.
North and Central America is the largest region, while EMEA and South America give the company a broad international footprint. Ball executes through manufacturing scale, multi-year supply contracts with drink fillers, capacity additions, and an operating model tied to the Ball Business System and EVA discipline. The business depends on beverage-filler demand, aluminum-container production, regional plant utilization, and regulatory remedies that can shape large packaging acquisitions.
Company facts
Target rangeAs of Sep 21, 2026
Latest analyst notes
| Date | Firm | Action | Prior | Current |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | JP Morgan | Upgrade | ||
| Aug 5, 2026 | Truist Financial | Target | Target: $75 | Target: $78 |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Mizuho Securities | Target | Target: $70 | Target: $72 |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Citigroup | Downgrade | ||
| Aug 5, 2026 | JP Morgan | Downgrade |
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RevenueReportedEstimate
Balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $491.0M · Total debt $7.22B · Total assets $20.11B · Shareholders' equity $5.75B
- Revenue
- $4.00B
- Operating income
- $512.0M
- Net income
- $221.0M
HistoryDividendAnnual yield
| Institutions | 89.02% | 235.64M shares | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 831 holders · as of Jun 30, 2026 | |||
| Insiders | 0.18% | 483.4K shares | |
| 18 holders · as of Aug 26, 2026 | |||
| Other | 10.80% | 28.58M shares | |
| remainder | |||
264.70M company shares as of Sep 22, 2026 · institutions as of Jun 30, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc.Institution | 7.94% | 21.01M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.Institution | 6.77% | 17.93M | filed Nov 14, 2025 |
Vanguard Capital Management LLCInstitution | 6.58% | 17.42M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
State Street CorpInstitution | 5.07% | 13.42M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Price T Rowe Associates Inc /MD/Institution | 4.65% | 12.31M | as of Jun 30, 2026 |
Insider tradesForm 4
| Date | Insider | Role | Shares | Avg price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | Mandy Glew | officer: SVP and President, EMEA | −5,626 | $63.80 |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Deron Goodwin | officer: VP, Global Head of Treasury | −8,809 | $63.03 |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Fauze Villatoro | officer: SVP & President South America | +1,551 | $64.51 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Kathleen Pitre | officer: SVP & President NCA | −10,660 | $66.63 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Nate C. Carey | officer: Vice President & Controller | −10,718 | $66.45 |
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Compare
| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ball | $60.42 | +1.19% | $15.90B | 17.0 | 14.4 | 1.1 | +19.7% |
| Crown | $110.15 | +1.31% | $11.83B | 15.6 | 13.0 | 0.9 | +16.5% |
| Ardagh Metal Packaging | $4.56 | +0.55% | $2.71B | 87.5 | 15.7 | 0.5 | +17.7% |
| Amcor | $42.94 | +1.87% | $19.49B | — | 9.9 | — | +25.9% |
| O-I Glass | $6.17 | +1.23% | $935.8M | — | 5.6 | 0.1 | −2.2% |
| Silgan | $37.51 | +1.13% | $3.92B | 14.6 | 9.6 | 0.6 | +6.8% |
| Sonoco Products | $50.07 | +1.66% | $4.87B | 7.6 | 8.3 | 0.7 | −1.3% |
| Median | 15.1 | 9.7 | 0.6 | +11.6% |