KeyBanc analyst Adam Josephson maintained a Hold rating on Ball Corp (NYSE: BLL) today. The company’s shares opened today at $37.92.
Josephson observed:
“We are modestly increasing our 2018 adj. EBITDA estimate to $1.864 billion from $1.840 billion (consensus and implied guidance are $1.880 billion) and our 2019 adj. EBITDA estimate to $1.90 billion from $1.88 billion (guidance is $2 billion) to reflect the beat. BLL has executed well in the past two quarters (and generated impressive cash flow last year), and market trends have improved in certain cases (notably South America). The Brazilian beverage market has dramatically improved of late for the can and bottle makers, but that market has been volatile in recent years (2016 was a poor year, while 2017 was much better) and could well remain so. Furthermore, capacity is coming into that market. And the ongoing declines in U.S. beer consumption and weakness in the U.S. food can market are well known.”
According to TipRanks.com, Josephson is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 6.3% and a 56.4% success rate. Josephson covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as International Paper Co, Avery Dennison Corp, and Graphic Packaging.
Ball Corp has an analyst consensus of Hold.
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The company has a one-year high of $43.24 and a one-year low of $35.60. Currently, Ball Corp has an average volume of 3.02M.
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Ball Corp. provides metal packaging for beverages, foods and household products, and of aerospace and other technologies and services to commercial and governmental customers. It operates through the following business segments: Beverage Packaging, North and Central America; Beverage Packaging, South America; Beverage Packaging, Europe; Food and Aerosol Packaging; and Aerospace. The Beverage Packaging, North and Central America segment sold under multi-year supply contracts to fillers of carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks and other beverages. The Beverage Packaging, South America segment sales volumes of beverage containers in South America, and manufacture substantially all of the metal beverage containers in Brazil. The Beverage Packaging, Europe segment sales volumes of metal beverage containers in Europe, and other packaging materials used by the European beer and carbonated soft drink industries. The Food and Aerosol Packaging segment produces two-piece and three-piece steel food containers and ends for packaging vegetables, fruit, soups, meat, seafood, nutritional products, pet food and other products, and also manufactures and sells steel aerosol containers, as well as extruded aluminum aerosol containers and aluminum slugs. The Aerospace segment provides diversified technical services and products to government agencies, prime contractors and commercial organizations for a broad range of information warfare, electronic warfare, avionics, intelligence, training and space system needs. The company was founded by Edmund Burke Ball, Frank Clayton Ball, George A. Ball, Lucius Lorenzo Ball and William Charles Ball in 1880 and is headquartered in Broomfield, CO.
