Ball Corp. (BALL) stock price, quote and key numbers
Updated 28 September 2026, 09:52 ET
Ball Corp. (BALL) closed at $56.83 on 25 September 2026, up 0.3%. That leaves it down 5.5% over a week, down 11.3% over a month and up 16.6% over a year. That is 51% of the way up its 52 week range of $44.83 to $68.29. The median analyst price target of $72 sits 26.7% above the close.
The price
Changes compare dividend and split adjusted closes over trading sessions, so the one year figure is the last close against the close 252 sessions earlier. The 52 week range uses the daily highs and lows of the same window. Read the guide: How to read a stock quote.
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Trend and range
BALL trades below both its 50 day average of $62.33 and its 200 day average of $59.87, the shape of a downtrend. The 50 day average sits above the 200 day average. Its beta against the S&P 500 over the last year is 0.21, a stock that barely follows the market. It is 16.8% below its 52 week high and 26.8% above its 52 week low.
Moving averages smooth the closes of the last 50 and 200 sessions; being above or below them describes the trend, it does not predict it. Beta is how much the stock moved for each move in the S&P 500 over the year. Read the guide: Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta.
What analysts say
In the last 90 days 6 firms recorded 7 actions on BALL: 5 kept a view, 1 upgrade and 1 downgrade. Price targets: 5 raised and 1 lowered. The most recent targets from 8 firms run from $65 to $77, with a median of $72, 26.7% above the last close.
| Date | Firm | Action | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Sep 2026 | JP Morgan | Upgrades to Overweight from Neutral | $65.00 |
| 5 Aug 2026 | UBS | Maintains Neutral | $65.00 to $66.00 |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Wells Fargo | Maintains Overweight | $71.00 to $72.00 |
| 5 Aug 2026 | JP Morgan | Downgrades to Neutral from Overweight | $60.00 to $65.00 |
| 14 Jul 2026 | B of A Securities | Maintains Buy | $70.00 to $73.00 |
| 9 Jul 2026 | RBC Capital | Maintains Outperform | $75.00 to $77.00 |
A target is one firm's guess at the price a year out, and the average runs optimistic. The useful reading is the mood: high targets and a wall of buys mean high expectations. Read the guide: What analyst ratings and price targets tell you.
Earnings
The next report is on the calendar for 3 November 2026 for Q3 2026, with earnings per share expected at $1.06. The last report, on 4 August 2026 for Q2 2026, showed EPS of $1.03 against $0.98 expected, a beat of 5.1%, on revenue of $4.0 billion. Ball Corp. beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 7 reported quarters.
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The numbers
Over the trailing twelve months Ball Corp. shows revenue growth of 15.56%, a gross margin of 18.63%, an operating margin of 10.76% and a return on equity of 17.33%.
| Measure | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, TTM | 15.6% | 71st |
| Net income growth, TTM | 68.6% | 76th |
| Gross margin | 18.6% | 21st |
| Operating margin | 10.8% | 66th |
| Free cash flow margin | 5.8% | 56th |
| Return on equity | 17.3% | 82nd |
| Return on assets | 4.9% | 80th |
| Debt to equity | 1.25 | 81st |
| Current ratio | 1.07 | 47th |
| Effective tax rate | 21.7% | 72nd |
The percentile ranks the company against every US company the data covers; a high percentile means most companies score lower.
Margins say how much of each dollar of sales becomes profit, returns say how hard the balance sheet works, and debt to equity says how much of it is borrowed. The valuation ratios, price to earnings and the rest, are in the app on the stock page. Read the guide: The valuation ratios on a stock page.
About Ball Corp.
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Sector
- Materials
- Industry
- Shipping Containers
- Headquarters
- Indianapolis, Colorado
- Chief executive
- Daniel W. Fisher
- Employees
- 21,000
- Website
- ball.com
Ball Corporation supplies aluminum packaging products for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries. The company also develops spacecraft, sensors and instruments, radio frequency systems, and other technologies for the civil, commercial, and national security aerospace markets. In addition, the company designs, manufactures, and tests satellites, remote sensors, and ground station control hardware and software.
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Learn
- How to read a stock quote
- Reading a price chart from one day to one year
- Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta
- What analyst ratings and price targets tell you
- The valuation ratios on a stock page
- Price alerts, targets and percent moves
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