profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Ball
$65.47+0.86% today
+36.6% in 1 year
1-year low $46.871-year high $68.07
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2020 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $18.69 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Ball sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $13.4 billion in 2022 to $13.2 billion in 2025, with $912 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Ball handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks $1.3B
Free cash flow 2025$788M
Bought back its own shares$1.3B
Paid as dividends$220M
Cash vs. debt$1.2B vs. $7.0B
Ball vs. similar companies
Ball grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball | 18.7× · Fair price | ||
 Packaging Corporation of America | 28.9× · Fair price | ||
 Smurfit Westrock | 31.8× · Expensive | ||
 Amcor | 18.3× · Fair price | ||
 International Paper | No profit yet |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Ball's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,781 | 13,811 | 13,372 | 12,062 | 11,795 | 13,161 | |
| – | – | 2,250 | 2,308 | 2,441 | 2,578 | |
| – | – | 1,101 | 1,171 | 1,183 | 1,390 | |
| 1,630 | 1,978 | 1,698 | 1,760 | 1,448 | 2,064 | |
| 585 | 878 | 719 | 707 | 4,008 | 912 | |
| 1.76 | 2.65 | 2.25 | 2.23 | 13.00 | 3.30 | |
| – | – | 16.8% | 19.1% | 20.7% | 19.6% | |
| – | – | 8.2% | 9.7% | 10.0% | 10.6% | |
| 5.0% | 6.4% | 5.4% | 5.9% | 34.0% | 6.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 18,252 | 19,714 | 19,909 | 19,303 | 17,628 | 19,524 |
| Cash | 1,366 | 563 | 548 | 695 | 885 | 1,212 |
| Total debt | 7,800 | 7,737 | 8,948 | 8,569 | 5,673 | 7,012 |
| Total liabilities | 14,915 | 16,029 | 16,382 | 15,466 | 11,698 | 14,103 |
| 3,275 | 3,627 | 3,461 | 3,769 | 5,862 | 5,421 | |
| 333 | 332 | 320 | 317 | 308 | 276 | |
| 6.9% | 8.9% | 6.5% | 6.9% | 5.7% | 9.2% | |
| 17.9% | 24.2% | 20.8% | 18.8% | 68.4% | 16.8% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,432 | 1,760 | 301 | 1,863 | 115 | 1,262 | |
| 1,113 | 1,726 | 1,651 | 1,045 | 484 | 474 | |
| 319 | 34 | -1,350 | 818 | -369 | 788 | |
| Dividends paid | 198 | 229 | 254 | 252 | 244 | 220 |
| 57 | 766 | 618 | 3 | 1,712 | 1,321 | |
| 43 | 40 | 39 | 33 | 63 | 28 |
Valuation
- 18.7×
- 16.5×
- 1.39
- 2.6×
- 1.3×
- 21.6×
- 11.1×
- 4.6%
- 5.4%
- 1.4%
Profitability
- 19.6%
- 10.6%
- 6.9%
- 15.6%
- 6.6%
- 12.0%
- 17.3%
- 4.7%
- 8.8%
- –
Growth
- +2.2%
- +13.4%
- +313.6%
- +5.9%
- −4.2%
Financial health
- 3.3×
- 1.39
- 39.5%
- 3.9×
- 1.12
- 0.72
- 0.69
How it ranks in Consumer Discretionary
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 40%of 982
Top 38%of 996
Top 50%of 860
Bottom 25%of 996
Bottom 48%of 982
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $70.25
- Range
- $66.00 – $75.00
- 1 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | 0.94 | 0.85 | +10.6% |
| Feb 3, 2026 | 0.91 | 0.90 | +1.1% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | 1.02 | 1.02 | +0.0% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | 0.90 | 0.87 | +3.4% |
| May 6, 2025 | 0.76 | 0.70 | +8.9% |
| Feb 4, 2025 | 0.84 | 0.81 | +3.7% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 0.91 | 0.86 | +6.2% |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 0.74 | 0.70 | +6.0% |
1.4%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$14a year at today's yield, before tax
+5.9%2020 to 2025
Raised–not every year
Paid per share, each year
$0.26 in 2015 → $0.80 in 2025
How safe it looks
24.1% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 27.9%
News
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Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
43No pass
Benjamin Graham
49No pass
Philip Fisher
50No pass
Peter Lynch
47No pass
Joel Greenblatt
31No pass
Charlie Munger
39No pass
Terry Smith
35No pass
Questions about Ball
Is Ball a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Ball AI analysis
What does Ball do?
Ball Corporation supplies aluminum packaging products for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries in the United States, Brazil, and internationally. It is in Packaging & Containers, based in Westminster, CO, United States, with 16,000 employees.
Does Ball pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.4% a year, about 24% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $220 million in dividends.
Is Ball stock halal?
No. Ball does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 41% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Ball stock done over the past year?
Up 36.6% over the past twelve months, to $65.47. It traded between $46.87 and $68.07 and is 3.8% below its high.
Who are Ball's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Packaging Corporation of America, Smurfit Westrock, Amcor and International Paper. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Ball's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.