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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Packaging · CIK 0000009389
$65.81
+2.59% · live
Updated
$18.61B market value
From BALL Corp's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 · read the filing
BALL makes metal parts and products. It took in $13.16B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 7 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability, growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 2 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$914.1K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From BALL Corp's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$4.01B → $915.0M
Profit margin
34.0% → 7.0%
Free cash flow
-$369.0M → $788.0M
Earnings per share
$12.72 → $3.24
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 19, 2026
Deteriorated: -77.2%
$4.01B to $915.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
BALL rose 2.59% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.33%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.3 points above its sector and 3.6 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 11% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 5% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 7 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $915.0M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 11.6% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 4.6 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.38 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 24 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 17% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $915.0M and generated $1.26B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 19, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 20, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 20, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 20, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 16, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $13.16B | $11.79B | $12.06B | $13.37B | $13.81B | +11.6% |
| Cost of revenue | $10.58B | $9.35B | $9.75B | $11.12B | $11.09B | +13.1% |
| Gross profit | $2.58B† | $2.44B† | $2.31B† | $2.25B† | $2.73B† | +5.6% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 19.6% | 20.7% | 19.1% | 16.8% | 19.7% | −1.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $566.0M | $647.0M | $532.0M | $555.0M | $593.0M | −12.5% |
| Operating income | — | — | $1.27B | $1.21B | $1.29B | — |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | — | — | 10.6% | 9.1% | 9.3% | — |
| Interest expense | $314.0M | $293.0M | $460.0M | $313.0M | $270.0M | +7.2% |
| Income before tax | $1.13B | $535.0M | $614.0M | $713.0M | $1.01B | +110.8% |
| Net income | $915.0M | $4.01B | $711.0M | $732.0M | $878.0M | −77.2% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 7.0% | 34.0% | 5.9% | 5.5% | 6.4% | −27.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.24 | $12.72 | $2.26 | $2.31 | $2.68 | −74.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 6,477 shares
Holds 15,623 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,873 shares at $59.56 ($111.6K)
Holds 13,750 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 163 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 50 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from BALL's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 19, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 3.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 21, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 16, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.62
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.40
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −27.1 pts
34.0% to 7.0%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: turned positive
-$369.0M to $788.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -74.6%
$12.72 to $3.24Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -10.4%
315.6M to 282.8MCritical
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Deteriorated: +31.6%
$5.31B to $6.99BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +36.9%
$885.0M to $1.21BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +11.6%
$11.79B to $13.16BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +5.6%
$2.44B to $2.58BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −1.1 pts
20.7% to 19.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Changed: -9.8%
$244.0M to $220.0MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 4, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +65.9%
$296.0M to $491.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +19.7%
$3.34B to $4.00BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +7.6%
$648.0M to $697.0MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −2.0 pts
19.4% to 17.4%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +7.8%
$0.78 to $0.84Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -3.7%
276.1M to 265.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 4, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -32.7%
$730.0M to $491.0MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +10.9%
$3.60B to $4.00BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +7.9%
$646.0M to $697.0MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +8.8%
$205.0M to $223.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +8.8%
$0.77 to $0.84Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -7.0%
$7.02B to $6.53BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 9% and 14%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 22 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 22 analysts publishing on this company, 6 say strong buy, 12 say buy and 4 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 2.8% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 19.3x — investors pay $19.3 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
Exercised stock options — 2,278 shares at $56.64 ($129.0K)
Holds 9,032 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,788 shares at $55.87 ($99.9K)
Holds 10,820 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 2,015 shares at $51.35 ($103.5K)
Holds 12,835 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 5,626 shares at $63.80 ($358.9K)
Holds 7,209 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,869 shares at $62.99 ($117.7K)
Holds 12,007 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 6,940 shares at $63.04 ($437.5K)
Holds 5,067 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 6,940 shares at $37.59 ($260.8K)
Holds 12,007 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 5,626 shares ($358.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Exercise of Options Under a Registered Plan.
Filed notice to sell 1,869 shares ($117.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Bonus Compensation Award.
Filed notice to sell 6,940 shares ($437.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Exercise of Options Under a Registered Plan.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +19.7% · Cash +65.9% · Gross profit +7.6% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +16.3% · Cash +62.6% · Capital spending +98.8% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +11.6% · Profit margin −27.1 pts · Profit -77.2% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +9.6% · Profit margin +3.0 pts · Profit +61.3% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +12.8% · Profit margin +1.1 pts · Earnings per share +51.5% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingThe first 40 of 163. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-19. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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