Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) is -7.00% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $48.95 and a high of $71.32 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The BALL stock was last observed hovering at around $52.31 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.04%.
Currently trading at $51.27, the stock is -0.21% and -3.10% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.07 million and changing -1.99% at the moment leaves the stock -15.33% off its SMA200. BALL registered -21.45% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -20.25%.
The stock witnessed a 1.83% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -10.23%, and is -1.16% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.25% over the week and 2.30% over the month.
Ball Corp (BALL) has around 16000 employees, a market worth around $14.48B and $11.80B in sales. Fwd P/E is 13.09. Profit margin for the company is -5.31%. Distance from 52-week low is 4.74% and -28.11% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-5.47%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 10.71% this year
The shares outstanding are 289.38M, and float is at 281.17M with Short Float at 2.53%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 35.31 million shares valued at $2.12 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.2103 of the BALL Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 22.21 million shares valued at $1.33 billion to account for 7.0531 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PARNASSUS INVESTMENTS, LLC which holds 20.68 million shares representing 6.6857 and valued at over $1.24 billion, while T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. holds 5.6786 of the shares totaling 17.56 million with a market value of $1.05 billion.
Ball Corp (BALL) Insider Activity
Ball Corp disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Jun 10 ’24 that Glew Mandy (SVP and President, EMEA) bought a total of 563 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Jun 10 ’24 and was made at $68.15 per share for $38367.0. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 3563.0 shares of the BALL stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 20 ’24, Fisher Daniel William (President & C.E.O.) disposed off 5,802 shares at an average price of $59.77 for $0.35 million. The insider now directly holds 118,043 shares of Ball Corp (BALL).
