With 2.2 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.96 million shares. During the session, the Packaging & Containers company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $54.9 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $53.5551. The 52-week range on BALL shows that it touched its highest point at $71.32 and its lowest point at $53.85 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $70.08. With its current market cap of 16.02 billion, BALL has annualized dividend of $0.80 while the current yield stands at 1.49%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of BALL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.36%, but this was down by -6.71% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.04% while six-month performance fell -8.78%. The stock lost -6.45% in the past year, while it has lost -2.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BALL yields -1.57 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.54. For the next quarter, that number is 0.81. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.16% for this year and 12.93% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.30% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.57%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 300.04 million BALL shares are outstanding with a float of 297.23 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 6.82 million, which was 229.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Daniel William Fisher as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Howard H. Yu CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.86515 of BALL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, BALL reported revenue of $3082000000.0 and operating income of $365000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $529000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.65.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BALL since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With BALL analysts setting a high price target of 83.0 and a low target of 56.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 68.788. Based on these targets, BALL could surge 54.59% to reach the target high and rise by 4.3% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.12% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.15329 being high and $3.02687 being low. For BALL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.1334.
