Ball Corporation·Consumer Cyclical

BALL tops Q1 estimates with strong revenue and earnings growth, but rising costs squeeze margins despite higher volumes and favorable pricing across regions.

Ball Corporation (BALL) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Although the revenue and EPS for Ball (BALL) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended March 2026, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

Ball (BALL) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.94 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.85 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.76 per share a year ago.

Highlights First quarter U.S. GAAP total diluted earnings per share of 77 cents vs. 63 cents in 2025 First quarter comparable diluted earnings per share of 94 cents vs.

BALL heads into Q1 earnings with sales and profit growth expected, but the model signals no clear beat as tariff costs and mixed segment outlook weigh.
Ball Corporation supplies aluminum packaging products for the beverage, personal care, and household products industries in the United States, Brazil, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Beverage Packaging, North and Central America; Beverage Packaging, Europe, Middle East and Africa; Beverage Packaging, South America; and Aerospace. The company manufactures and sells aluminum beverage containers to fillers of carbonated soft drinks, beer, energy drinks, and other beverages. It also develops spacecraft, sensors and instruments, radio frequency systems, and other technologies for the civil, commercial, and national security aerospace markets, as well as offers defense hardware, antenna and video tactical solutions, civil and operational space hardware, and systems engineering services. In addition, the company designs, manufactures, and tests satellites, remote sensors, and ground station control hardware and software; and provides launch vehicle integration and satellite operational services. Further, it offers target identification, warning, and attitude control systems and components; cryogenic systems and associated sensor cooling devices; star trackers; and fast-steering mirrors to the government agencies or their prime contractors. Additionally, the company manufactures and sells extruded aluminum aerosol containers, recloseable aluminum bottles, aluminum cups, and aluminum slugs. Ball Corporation was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.
Consumer Cyclical
Packaging & Containers
16,000
1972-07-13
1.06