Ball Corp (BALL)’s latest performance is not what we had anticipated

Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) on Friday, soared 4.63% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $45.96. Within the past 52 weeks, BALL’s price has moved between $43.51 and $71.32.

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A company in the Consumer Cyclical sector has jumped its sales by 1.53% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 10.58%. With a float of $281.11 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $289.38 million.

In an organization with 16000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 18.24%, operating margin of 7.21%, and the pretax margin is 4.53%.

Ball Corp (BALL) Insider Updates

Observing investor behavior towards Packaging & Containers industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Ball Corp is 0.45%, while institutional ownership is 87.50%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 14 ’25, was worth 12,407,500. Before that another transaction happened on Jun 10 ’24, when Company’s SVP and President, EMEA bought 563 for $68.15, making the entire transaction worth $38,367. This insider now owns 3,563 shares in total.

Ball Corp (BALL) Performance Highlights and Predictions

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.85 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.58% per share during the next fiscal year.

Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) Trading Performance Indicators

Ball Corp (BALL) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.69 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.15.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -1.96, a number that is poised to hit 0.70 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.92 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Ball Corp (BALL)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 4.62 million. That was better than the volume of 2.77 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 37.90%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.80.

During the past 100 days, Ball Corp’s (BALL) raw stochastic average was set at 23.08%, which indicates a significant decrease from 51.06% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 43.19% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 29.17% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $51.01, while its 200-day Moving Average is $58.76. However, in the short run, Ball Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $49.20. Second resistance stands at $50.31. The third major resistance level sits at $52.14. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $46.26, it is likely to go to the next support level at $44.43. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $43.32.

Ball Corp (NYSE: BALL) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 13.58 billion based on 282,379K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 11,795 M and income totals 4,008 M. The company made 2,880 M in profit during its latest quarter, and -32,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.