Ball Corporation

BALL Consumer Cyclical Packaging & Containers

Ball Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $13.2 billion, up 11.6% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 19.7%, EPS grew 7.79%, free cash flow grew 97.9% and total debt rose 2.75%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for three consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

63.15 0.35 +0.56%
Market cap
$16.6B
P/E
17.9×
Fwd P/E
15.0×
Dividend yield
1.27%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
2.45
Beneish M
−2.38
Dividend safety
68/100

Ball Corporation (BALL) Debt to equity

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Ball Corporation's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 1.3×, down 0.0× from fiscal 2025 (1.3×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.0× (fiscal 2024) to 4.0× (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Packaging & Containers industry median of 0.8× and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 1.3× 35.20%
FY2024 1.0× (57.16%)
FY2023 2.2× (11.97%)
FY2022 2.5× 20.83%
FY2021 2.1× (10.17%)
FY2020 2.3× (9.73%)
FY2019 2.6× 37.07%
FY2018 1.9× 9.65%
FY2017 1.7× (19.00%)
FY2016 2.1× (46.90%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 1.3× (9.87%)
Mar 2026 1.4× 7.41%
Dec 2025 1.3× (2.16%)
Sep 2025 1.3× (0.71%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.0× High 4.0×
Ten-year median 2.1×
Current reading's percentile 18

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
IP International Paper Company compare 0.6×
REYN Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. compare 0.7×
SW Smurfit Westrock PLC compare 0.8×
PKG Packaging Corporation of America compare 0.9×
SON Sonoco Products Company compare 1.0×
AMCR Amcor PLC compare 1.2×
BALL Ball Corporation 1.3×
AVY Avery Dennison Corporation compare 1.4×
CCK Crown Holdings, Inc. compare 1.8×
Packaging & Containers industry median 0.8×
Consumer Cyclical sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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