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Ball Corporation (BLL) Investment Summary:
Ball Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, supplies metal and plastic packaging to the beverage, food, and household products industries worldwide. It offers aluminum and steel beverage cans for producers of beer, carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, fruit juices, energy drinks, and other beverages. The company also produces two-piece and three-piece steel food containers for packaging vegetables, fruit, soups, meat, seafood, nutritional products, pet food, and other products; aerosol cans, paint cans, and custom and specialty containers; and polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene plastic containers used primarily in beverage and food packaging, as well as plastic containers for industrial and household product applications. In addition, it develops spacecraft, sensors and instruments, radio frequency systems, and other technologies for the civil, commercial, and national security aerospace markets. Further, the company provides technical services and products to government agencies, prime contractors, and commercial organizations for a range of information warfare, electronic warfare, avionics, intelligence, training, and space systems needs. Ball Corporation was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.www.ball.com
14,500 Employees
Founded in 1880
BALL CORP (BLL:NYSE)
LAST $54.20 USD
CHANGE TODAY -0.11 -0.20%
VOLUME 1.1M
As of 8:04 PM 03/19/10 All times are local (Market data is delayed by at least 15 minutes).
Snapshot of BALL CORP (BLL)
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OPEN
$54.16
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PREVIOUS CLOSE
$54.31
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DAY HIGH
$54.47
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DAY LOW
$53.84
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52 WEEK HIGH
03/8/10 - $55.13
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52 WEEK LOW
04/30/09 - $37.30
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MARKET CAP
5.1B
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AVERAGE VOLUME 10 D
549.3K
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EPS TTM
$4.09
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SHARES OUTSTANDING
94.1M
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EX-DATE
02/25/10
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P/E TTM
13.3x
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DIVIDEND
$0.40
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DIVIDEND YIELD
0.74%
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Key developments for BALL CORP (BLL)
Ball Corporation Sells $500 Million in Senior Notes
03/19/2010
Ball Corp. on March 17, sold $500 million of senior notes. The size of the deal was increased from an originally planned $450 million. Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital were the joint book running managers for the sale.
Ball Corp. to Retire all of its Currently Outstanding 6.875% Senior Notes Due in 2012
03/18/2010
Ball Corporation hired Deutsche Bank Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital as the joint underwriters of its $500 million notes offering. The issuance of 6.75% senior notes maturing on September 15, 2020 is part of the company's existing shelf and the amount has been raised from an original $450 million. The sale is expected to close on March 22, 2010. The company said it would slate the raised funds to retire all of its currently outstanding 6.875% senior notes due in 2012 that is expected to bring a one-time, after-tax charge of some $4.7 million.
Ball Corporation, Annual General Meeting, Apr 28, 2010
03/12/2010
Ball Corporation, Annual General Meeting, Apr 28, 2010, at 08:00 Mountain Daylight. Location: 10 Longs Peak Drive, Broomfield, Co. 80021-2510,United States. Agenda: To elect one director for a one-year term expiring at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held in 2011, and to elect four directors for three-year terms; to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Corporation for 2010; to approve the 2010 Stock and Cash Incentive Plan; to consider a shareholder proposal, to ratify the compensation of the named executive officers; to consider a shareholder proposal, to have the Board of Directors adopt a rule to redeem any current or future rights plan unless such plan or amendments to the plan are submitted to a shareholder vote, as a separate ballot item, within 12 months; and to transact any other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Ball Corporation financial resources
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Industry Analysis
| Valuation | BLL | Industry Range |
| Price/Earnings | 13.3x |
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| Price/Sales | 0.7x |
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| Price/Book | 3.2x |
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| Price/Cash Flow | 7.4x |
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| TEV/Sales | 0.3x |
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BLL transactions
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Buyback
February 16, 2010 |
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Merger/Acquisition
November 9, 2009 |
Foshan Sanshui Jianlibao FTB Packaging Ltd. |
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Bankruptcy
October 30, 2009 |
More Recent Financial News About Ball Corporation
Ball Aerospace Integration of VIIRS Instrument for NPP Complete
2010-03-19 03:07:24
Quote: (Photo: Â http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100318/LA72564)Ball Aerospace concluded integration of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on March 5. Â Instruments integrated earlier include the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder; the Cloud and the Earth's Radiant Energy System; and the Ball Aerospace Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS). Â Integration of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder later this year will complete the spacecraft instrument suite. "The efficient a...Read article
Listen Live to Ball Presentation at the Barclays Capital High Yield Bond and Syndicated Loan Conference
2010-03-19 03:07:23
Quote: To listen to the presentation live via Web cast, please use the following URL:http://cc.talkpoint.com/barc002/032510a_rb/default.asp?entity=55_IK2XV7D www.ball.com.Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,000 people worldwide and reported 2009 sales of more than $7....Read article
Ball Corporation Announces Public Offering of Senior Notes
2010-03-18 02:36:30
Quote: The exact terms and timing of the offering will depend upon market conditions and other factors.Ball intends to use the net proceeds from the offering, together with borrowings under its revolving credit facility or accounts receivable securitization facility or cash on hand, to retire all of its currently outstanding 6.875 percent senior notes due in 2012, whether by redemption, tender offer, open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. The retirement of the 6.875 perc...Read article
Ball Corporation Prices $500 Million Aggregate Principal Amount of Notes
2010-03-18 02:36:29
Quote: Ball intends to use the net proceeds from the offering, together with borrowings under its revolving credit facility or accounts receivable securitization facility or cash on hand, to retire all of its currently outstanding 6.875 percent senior notes due in 2012, whether by redemption, tender offer, open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. The retirement of the 6.875 percent senior notes due in 2012 is expected to result in a one-time, after-tax charge of approximat...Read article
New Issue-Ball Corp sells $500 mln in senior notes
2010-03-18 02:36:29
Keywords: United States of America,Debt,U.S. corporate debt,Terms and conditions - bond issues,Loans,
Quote: New Issue-Ball Corp sells $500 mln in senior notes
March 17 (Reuters) - Ball Corp (BLL.N) on Wednesday sold
$500 million of senior notes, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters
service.The size of the deal was increased from an originally
planned $450 million.Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan,
Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital were the joint bookrunning
managers for the sale.
BORROWER: BALL CORP
AMT $500 MLNCOUPON 6.75 PCTMATURITY 9/15/2020TYPE SR NOTESISS PRICE 100FIRST PAY 9/15/201...Read article
Colorado comes up short on Fortune’s ‘most admired companies’ list
2010-03-08 01:10:04
Quote: 5 last year.But neither company made it up to the most-admired level, reserved for those that score in the top 50 percent of their industries in a survey of business peers.Nor did any Colorado business make it to the pinnacle ranking: Fortune's top 50 most-admired-companies list, which spans all industries.Last year’s Fortune report had two local companies — Western Union and Ball Corp. — rated as most admired, and four more — AIMCO, ProLogis, Liberty Media and First ...Read article
Newmont Mining, Ball Corp. among ‘best corporate citizens’
2010-03-04 03:52:47
Quote: and Ball Corp. have been named to Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 2010 list of America’s “100 Best Corporate Citizens.”Greenwood Village-based Newmont (NYSE: NEM) ranks No. 16 and Broomfield-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) is No. 96.Corporate Responsibility said it bases its ranking on “over 360 data points of publicly available information in seven categories,” including environment, climate change, human rights, philanthropy, employee relations, financial p...Read article
BALL CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events
2010-03-01 06:09:24
Quote: David Hoover, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Ball Corporation (the "Company"), adopted a stock trading plan in accordance
with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Under Rule
10b5-1, directors, officers and other employees who are not in possession of
material non-public information may adopt pre-arranged plans or contracts for
the sale of Company securities under specified conditions and at specified
times. Using 10b5-1 plans, individuals can gradua...Read article
BALL CORP Files SEC form 10-K, Annual Report
2010-02-26 01:06:49
Quote: Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries are referred to collectively as
"Ball" or "the company" or "we" or "our" in the following discussion and
analysis.
OVERVIEW
Business Overview
Ball Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of metal and plastic
packaging to the beverage, food and household products industries. Our packaging
products are produced for a variety of end uses and are manufactured in plants
around the world. We also provide aero...Read article
Ball Announces Stock Repurchase
2010-02-19 01:42:37
Quote: 17 and to reduce Ball's outstanding common stock by approximately 2.5 million shares.The shares are subject to a market price adjustment provision which may require a settlement to be made by Ball, or to Ball, based generally on the volume weighted average trading price of the company's shares over an agreed upon period of time.Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies an...Read article
Ball Announces Stock Repurchase
2010-02-17 06:18:57
Quote: 17 and to reduce Ball's outstanding common stock by approximately 2.5 million shares.The shares are subject to a market price adjustment provision which may require a settlement to be made by Ball, or to Ball, based generally on the volume weighted average trading price of the company's shares over an agreed upon period of time.Ball Corporation is a supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies an...Read article
IPO VIEW-Graham IPO could buck negative Blackstone trend
2010-02-15 01:47:57
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Ball Corp. says 4th-qtr profit more than doubles
2010-02-12 07:52:24
Quote: (AP) -- Packaging supplier Ball Corp.'s sales rose and its profit more than doubled in its fiscal fourth quarter compared with a year earlier, when its results included large costs for closing factories.In the quarter that ended Dec. 31, Ball earned $81.4 million, or 85 cents per share, compared with $33.8 million, or 36 cents per share, a year earlier. For the final part of 2008, the company reported a $19.6 million charge related to the closings.Excluding costs that cost and gains from selling...Read article
Ball Aerospace Tests NASA's Landsat Operational Land Imager in Stray Light Test Facility
2010-02-12 07:52:23
Quote: 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed stray light testing of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) telescope assembly for NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100209/LA51698)The first of its kind stray light test was conducted at Ball's new Stray Light Test Facility (SLTF) in Boulder, Colorado. Â The OLI instrument will provide 15-meter (49ft.) panchromatic and 30m multi-spectral earth-imaging spatial...Read article
Ball Aerospace Begins Integration of VIIRS for NPOESS Preparatory Satellite
2010-02-12 07:52:23
Quote: 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun integration of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP). Â (Photo: Â http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100129/LA46368)NPOESS, a joint program between NASA and the Integrated Program Office, is the nation's next generation low-Earth orbiting operational weather and climate monitoring system....Read article
Ball Corporation to Present at Barclays Capital Industrial Select Conference
2010-02-12 07:52:22
Quote: 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), one of the world's leading suppliers of metal and plastic packaging to the beverage, food and household products industries, will speak to the investment community on Feb. 17 at the Barclays Capital Industrial Select Conference in Miami, Fla.John A. Hayes, president and COO, and Scott Morrison, senior vice president, CFO and treasurer, are scheduled to speak at 2:55 p.m. Eastern timehttp://cc.talkpoint.com/barc002/021710a_rb/?entity=33_Y...Read article
Ball Corporation to Present at Barclays Capital Industrial Select Conference
2010-02-11 02:05:34
Quote: 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), one of the world's leading suppliers of metal and plastic packaging to the beverage, food and household products industries, will speak to the investment community on Feb. 17 at the Barclays Capital Industrial Select Conference in Miami, Fla.John A. Hayes, president and COO, and Scott Morrison, senior vice president, CFO and treasurer, are scheduled to speak at 2:55 p.m. Eastern timehttp://cc.talkpoint.com/barc002/021710a_rb/?entity=33_Y...Read article
Ball Aerospace Tests NASA's Landsat Operational Land Imager in Stray Light Test Facility
2010-02-10 01:11:11
Quote: 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed stray light testing of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) telescope assembly for NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100209/LA51698)The first of its kind stray light test was conducted at Ball's new Stray Light Test Facility (SLTF) in Boulder, Colorado. Â The OLI instrument will provide 15-meter (49ft.) panchromatic and 30m multi-spectral earth-imaging spatial...Read article
Ball Aerospace Begins Integration of VIIRS for NPOESS Preparatory Satellite
2010-02-01 02:13:47
Quote: 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has begun integration of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP). Â (Photo: Â http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100129/LA46368)NPOESS, a joint program between NASA and the Integrated Program Office, is the nation's next generation low-Earth orbiting operational weather and climate monitoring system....Read article
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