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Ball Corp. BALL

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$13.2B
▲ 11.6% YoY
$915.0M
▼ 77.2% YoY
$788.0M

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In brief

What this company does

Ball Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries supply aluminum packaging for the beverage, personal care and household products industries. At the end of 2025, the company and its subsidiaries employed approximately 16,000 employees, including approximately 5,000 in the U.S. Since the first quarter of 2024, the company reports its financial performance in three reportable segments: beverage packaging, North and Central America; beverage packaging, Europe, Middle East and Africa; and beverage packaging, South America. The beverage packaging, North and Central America, segment accounted for 48 percent of consolidated net sales in 2025, and its aluminum beverage containers and ends are produced at 17 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., one in Canada and two in Mexico. The beverage packaging, EMEA, segment accounted for 30 percent of consolidated net sales in 2025, with operations that include 19 facilities throughout Europe and one facility each in Cairo, Egypt, and Manisa, Turkey. The beverage packaging, South America, segment accounted for 16 percent of consolidated net sales in 2025, with operations consisting of 12 facilities, nine in Brazil and one each in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. The company was organized in 1880 and incorporated in the state of Indiana, United States of America, in 1922.

Written from the business description in BALL CORPORATION's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 13.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 13.2 · Net income 0.9
5B10B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−0.5%
+2.2%
+5.1%
+3.7%
+7.7%
+9.5%
+11.7%
+4.5%
+13.6%
+13.4%
+12.7%
+0.0%
+5.9%
+11.9%
+20.9%
+45.4%
+24.5%
+7.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.2% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +9.5%, earnings per share at +13.4%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

7 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating · · Net 7.0%
10%20%30%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 16.2%
50%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have a clean operating profit figure for this period.
Gross margin19.6%
Operating margin·
Net margin7.0%
EBITDA·

Each USD of equity produced 16 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.5B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 0.8
0.4B0.8B-0.5B-1.0B
200820162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.2 · Net buybacks 1.3
1B2BDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 220.0M
Net buybacksUSD 1.3B
Share of profit168.4%
Consecutive raises·

USD 220.0M in dividends and USD 1.3B in buybacks — 168% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 19.5B
EquityUSD 5.4B
CashUSD 1.2B
Gross debtUSD 7.0B
Net debtUSD 5.8B
Current ratio1.11×

Net debt stands at 107% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
BALL, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B13.211.812.113.413.811.811.511.611.09.18.08.68.58.78.67.66.76.8
Operating income $B◌◌1.31.21.31.00.90.90.80.50.60.80.80.80.80.80.70.6
EBITDA $B◌◌1.91.82.01.71.61.61.50.90.91.11.11.11.11.00.90.8
Income tax $B0.20.10.10.10.20.10.10.20.2−0.10.00.10.10.20.20.20.20.1
Net income $B0.94.00.70.70.90.60.50.50.40.30.30.50.40.40.50.50.40.3
Free cash flow $B0.8−0.40.8−1.40.00.30.90.80.9−0.40.50.60.50.50.50.30.40.3
EPS, diluted $3.3013.002.232.252.651.761.661.291.050.811.003.302.732.502.632.552.041.65
Dividend / sh $0.800.800.800.800.700.600.550.400.360.260.260.520.520.400.280.200.200.20
Payout %2463535263434303431241517151081012
ROE %16.283.419.720.725.418.716.712.210.311.426.544.137.235.932.430.229.129.4

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures · 4 divergences in 74 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. 4 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures4 divergent
ActivityMetal Cans
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inIndiana
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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