BALLBall Corporation
Is the business good?
The checks split: margins steady and returns not propped up by debt.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 16% = margin × turnover × leverage.
All from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is BALL?
Ball Corporation keeps 6.6% of every revenue dollar as profit after everything, against 4.7% for the median Packaging & Containers name.
Net margin · Packaging & Containers median 4.7% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −3.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 19%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.5% |
| FY2021 | 9.3% |
| FY2022 | 9.1% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 19%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 6.6%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $14.3B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $827M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $949M
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Packaging & Containers
The closest names by size in the same industry