For the quarter ended June 2025, Ball (BALL) reported revenue of $3.34 billion, up 12.8% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.90, compared to $0.74 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.15 billion, representing a surprise of +5.86%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of +3.45%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $0.87.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Ball performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Net Sales- Other: $198 million versus $197.02 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +5.3% change.
- Net Sales- Beverage packaging, EMEA: $1.05 billion versus the four-analyst average estimate of $976.65 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +19.3%.
- Net Sales- Beverage packaging, South America: $477 million versus $450.71 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +13% change.
- Net Sales- Beverage packaging, North and Central America: $1.61 billion versus $1.53 billion estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +9.8% change.
- Comparable operating earnings- Beverage packaging, North and Central America: $208 million compared to the $206.19 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Comparable operating earnings- Beverage packaging, South America: $51 million compared to the $42.15 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Comparable operating earnings- Beverage packaging, EMEA: $129 million compared to the $120.25 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Comparable operating earnings- Other: $8 million compared to the $-6.94 million average estimate based on three analysts.
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Shares of Ball have returned -1.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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