Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation (NYSE: BALL) operates as one of the world's leading suppliers of aluminum packaging for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries. The company maintains its website at www.ball.com/investors and generated total consolidated net sales of $13.16 billion in 2025. From the company’s description.
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What Ball Corporation does
In the company’s own words
Ball Corporation (NYSE: BALL) operates as one of the world's leading suppliers of aluminum packaging for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries. The company maintains its website at www.ball.com/investors and generated total consolidated net sales of $13.16 billion in 2025.
The company's core business centers on manufacturing and selling aluminum beverage containers, extruded aluminum aerosol containers, recloseable aluminum bottles, and aluminum slugs. Ball's largest product line consists of aluminum beverage containers, which serve major multinational beverage companies and regional customers globally. The company operates approximately 16,000 employees across manufacturing facilities worldwide.
Ball organizes its operations into three primary reportable segments. The beverage packaging, North and Central America segment accounts for 48 percent of consolidated net sales and operates 17 manufacturing facilities in the United States, one in Canada, and two in Mexico, producing approximately 50 billion aluminum beverage containers annually. The beverage packaging, Europe, Middle East and Africa segment represents 30 percent of consolidated net sales with 19 facilities throughout Europe and one facility each in Egypt and Turkey, shipping approximately 38 billion containers in 2025. The beverage packaging, South America segment comprises 16 percent of consolidated net sales with 12 facilities across Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay, producing approximately 20 billion containers annually.
Beyond these primary segments, Ball maintains operations in personal and home care products through nine manufacturing facilities and operates beverage packaging operations in India and Myanmar. The company also holds equity method investments in the United States, Guatemala, Panama, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia.
Ball's strategy emphasizes executing operational excellence, maintaining close customer relationships, accelerating the substrate shift to aluminum packaging, and managing complexity to competitive advantage. The company pursues a disciplined financial strategy focused on comparable diluted earnings per share growth exceeding ten percent annually, maximizing cash flow, and returning value to shareholders. Ball's sustainability commitment includes achieving a science-based 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net zero carbon emissions prior to 2050, with operations supported by the Ball Business System operating model and organizational values emphasizing care, work, and winning.
Company details
- Sector
- Materials
- Industry (SIC)
- Fabricated Metal
- Headquarters
- WESTMINSTER, CO
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 9389
- SIC
- 3411
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Ball Corporation — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Ball Corporation’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Ball Corporation’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 5 issues of Ball Corporation’s debt, $880.13M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.78%, maturing 2029 to 2033.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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