Ball Corporation (BALL)

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Ball Corporation's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2017-03-02) (its current reports).

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Ball Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $9.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $13 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Ball Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 4.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 5 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-16, buying about $100 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Ball Corporation earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 72 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 10.5% over the year (the filed statements).

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Ball Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 7% ranks in the top 24%; revenue growth of -0.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Ball Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lewis, Ronald J. (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-12-16, 11 months (bottom 6% of its family); the 24 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3 years (bottom 2%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (top 48%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Ball Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.2 billion against debt of $7.0 billion leaves -29.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 10% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6% of revenue (bottom 48%) (its annual report).

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Ball Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.5% a year over the last three filed years against 4.2% over all 10, slowing (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew 11.6% (top 25%); research spending grew 5.4% a year (top 47%); capital spending grew -34% a year (bottom 14%) (its annual reports). Ball Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Metal Beverage Packaging North and Central America at $6.3 billion, Metal Beverage Packaging Europe at $4.0 billion, Metal Beverage Packaging South America at $2.2 billion. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 51% of revenue (its annual report).

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Ball Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 18.8% above the $11 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 19% of its family); net income of $915 million against a prior three-year average of $1.8 billion (bottom 25%); a net margin of 7% against 15.1% before (bottom 16%) (its annual reports).