Ball (BALL)

Consumer Cyclical · Packaging & Containers · S&P 500
$57.74 +0.53% on the day Market cap $15.0B 52-week range $44.83 to $68.29 Prices as of Oct 7, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
4% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $15.0B, Ball's free cash flow of $788M (fiscal 2025) would need to grow about 4% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is faster than the company has grown its free cash flow over the last 8 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from Ball's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price4.4% a year
Free cash flow, last 8 years-1.9% a year
Revenue, same period4.2% a year
Price to free cash flow19.1x

Fundamental grade

C

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from BALL's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation7
Profitability5
Growth6
Financial health2
Cash efficiency4

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)16.5x
P/E (forward)15.1x
Price / free cash flow19.1x
EV / EBITDA10.8x
Price / sales1.05x
Price / book2.85x
Revenue growth+19.7%
Operating margin—
Net margin6.6%
Return on equity16.5%
Dividend yield1.4%
Debt / equity2.50x

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from Ball's 10-K filings. The deep dive has 15+ years, quarters and every line.

Fiscal year20212022202320242025
Revenue$13.8B$13.4B$12.1B$11.8B$13.2B
Net income$878M$719M$707M$4.0B$912M
Free cash flow$34M-$1.4B$818M-$369M$788M
EPS (diluted)$2.65$2.25$2.23$13.00$3.30
Operating margin9.3%9.1%10.6%——

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by segments, fiscal 2025.

Beverage packaging, North And Central America$6.3B51%
Beverage packaging, EMEA$4.0B32%
Beverage packaging, South America$2.2B17%

Superinvestors who own BALL

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows). 3 of the investors we track hold it.

InvestorLast quarterValue% of portfolioQuarter
Cliff Asness
AQR Capital Management
Added $227M0.08%Q2 2026
Joel Greenblatt
Gotham Asset Management
Trimmed $18M0.04%Q2 2026
Will Nasgovitz
Heartland Advisors
Trimmed $7M0.33%Q2 2026

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by Ball's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you.

DateInsiderSharesPriceValue
Mar 4, 2026 Fauze Villatoro
1,551$64.51$100,055

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In the full deep dive

DCF fair value per share
Yearly return (IRR) at today's price
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15+ years of statements and quarters

Questions

What growth does Ball's stock price imply?

At a market value of $15.0B, Ball would need its free cash flow to grow about 4% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 8 years its free cash flow grew -2% a year.

Are Ball insiders buying the stock?

1 open-market insider purchase of BALL in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings.

Which superinvestors own Ball?

3 of the superinvestors Investingly tracks hold BALL in their latest 13F, including Cliff Asness, Joel Greenblatt, Will Nasgovitz.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 7, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.