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Company snapshot — Ball Corporation

BALL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Ball Corporation makes aluminium packaging for beverage, personal care and household products, chiefly aluminium beverage containers for fillers of soft drinks, beer and energy drinks. It also produces extruded aerosol containers, recloseable bottles, cups and aluminium slugs. The company operates in the United States, Brazil and other countries, was founded in 1880, and is based in Westminster, Colorado.
Where it sits in the stack
Ball holds no seat in our Rubin index. It sits within the packaging and containers industry of the consumer cyclical sector in our universe, supplying containers to beverage and consumer-goods fillers rather than any stage of the AI build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelook does not carry a peer group for Ball. The market's usual comparison is Crown Holdings, the other large maker of aluminium beverage cans.
Why Closelook tracks it
Ball is a constituent of the S&P 500. It carries no Closelook score and no Rubin or Halo seat, and the diary has not quoted or featured it in an edition.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how demand for aluminium cans moves against demand for other beverage packaging, since that split shapes the volumes a packaging maker like Ball reports.

Ball Corporation (BALL) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for BALL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Packaging & Containers · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Packaging & Containers · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against BALL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.32%, quarterly · last 0.20 USD on 2026-09-01

Dividends and capital return

What BALL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.80 USD per share · a 1.32% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year −0.8% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.81 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.20 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.20 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.80 USD · 2025: 0.81 USD · 2026: 0.60 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-30

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Ball Corporation (BALL)?

Ball Corporation trades as BALL on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is BALL in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Ball Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does BALL trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -3% vs the 50-day and +2.3% vs the 200-day average, 10.4% below the 52-week high and +37% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Ball Corporation do?

Ball Corporation makes aluminium packaging for beverage, personal care and household products, chiefly aluminium beverage containers for fillers of soft drinks, beer and energy drinks. It also produces extruded aerosol containers, recloseable bottles, cups and aluminium slugs. The company operates in the United States, Brazil and other countries, was founded in 1880, and is based in Westminster, Colorado. Closelook does not carry a peer group for Ball. The market's usual comparison is Crown Holdings, the other large maker of aluminium beverage cans.

Where does Ball Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Ball holds no seat in our Rubin index. It sits within the packaging and containers industry of the consumer cyclical sector in our universe, supplying containers to beverage and consumer-goods fillers rather than any stage of the AI build-out. Ball is a constituent of the S&P 500. It carries no Closelook score and no Rubin or Halo seat, and the diary has not quoted or featured it in an edition.

Does Ball Corporation pay a dividend?

Ball Corporation has paid 0.80 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.32% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.20 USD on 2026-09-01. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BALL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Packaging & Containers. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.