A new trading day began on Friday, with Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) stock price down -0.75% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $54.44. BALL’s price has ranged from $54.06 to $71.32 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 5.59% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 8.05%. With a float of $297.23 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $300.04 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 21000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 18.35%, operating margin of 10.09%, and the pretax margin is 5.89%.
Ball Corp (BALL) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Packaging & Containers Industry. The insider ownership of Ball Corp is 0.40%, while institutional ownership is 84.88%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 20 ’24, was worth 346,795. In this transaction President & C.E.O. of this company sold 5,802 shares at a rate of $59.77, taking the stock ownership to the 118,043 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 20 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 5,802 for $59.77, making the entire transaction worth $346,795.
Ball Corp (BALL) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.05% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.30% during the next five years compared to 11.57% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Ball Corp’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.82. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.30.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -1.57, a number that is poised to hit 0.81 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.54 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Ball Corp (BALL)
Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) saw its 5-day average volume 1.57 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.12 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.26%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.16.
During the past 100 days, Ball Corp’s (BALL) raw stochastic average was set at 1.23%, which indicates a significant decrease from 3.44% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.61% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 23.56% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $59.56, while its 200-day Moving Average is $63.88. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $54.47 in the near term. At $54.91, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $55.22. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $53.72, it is likely to go to the next support level at $53.41. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $52.97.
Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 16.00 billion, the company has a total of 298,426K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 14,029 M while annual income is 707,000 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 3,082 M while its latest quarter income was 197,000 K.
