Ball Corp (BALL)

• Market cap: $13.3B
• 1 day: -1.39%
• 5 days: -2.1%
• 1 month: -7.21%
• 3 months: -11.34%
• 6 months: -6.2%
• Year to date: -9.92%
• 1 year: -27.05%
• 5 years: -41.69%
• 10 years: 45.95%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Packaging & Containers

About: Ball is the world's largest metal can manufacturer with market share over 30% in its three main regions (North America, Europe, and South America). The company is focused on increasing capacity amid a wave of new developed-market demand, while also investing in faster-growing emerging-market economies. Ball spun-off its glass jar business in 1993 and is now owned by Newell. The company reports three segments—beverage packaging, North and Central America (48% of 2024 revenue), beverage packaging, EMEA (29%), beverage packaging, South America (17%)—and it generated $12 billion in revenue in 2024.

Employees: 16,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

24% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $124M | Put options by funds: $99.7M

16% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 96 | Existing positions closed: 83

8% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $12.2B [Q1] → $13.2B (+$944M) [Q2]

1.47% more ownership

Funds ownership: 83.31% [Q1] → 84.78% (+1.47%) [Q2]

1% more funds holding

Funds holding: 696 [Q1] → 700 (+4) [Q2]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q1] → 1 (+0) [Q2]

30% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 211 | Existing positions reduced: 302

Research analyst outlook

7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $54
• Avg. target: $64
• High target: $70

7 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 43%
• neutral: 3 43%
• negative: 1 14%

RBC Capital Arun Viswanathan	$70	Outperform Maintained	7 Aug 2025
Wells Fargo Gabe Hajde	$54	Underweight Maintained	18 Jul 2025
Mizuho John Roberts	$68	Outperform Maintained	15 Jul 2025
Truist Securities Michael Roxland	$69	Buy Maintained	11 Jul 2025
UBS Cleveland Rueckert	$60	Neutral Maintained	9 Jul 2025