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Sep 30, 2020

Ball Q3 2020 Earnings Report

Reported strong results with increased global beverage can volumes and aerospace contracted backlog.

Key Takeaways

Ball Corporation reported strong third quarter results with net earnings attributable to the corporation of $241 million, or 72 cents per diluted share, on sales of $3.1 billion. Comparable earnings per diluted share were 89 cents, driven by global beverage can volume growth and aerospace segment performance.

Third quarter U.S. GAAP earnings per diluted share of 72 cents vs 27 cents in 2019.

Third quarter comparable earnings per diluted share of 89 cents vs 70 cents in 2019.

Global beverage can volumes up 9% in the quarter.

Aerospace contracted backlog of $2.4 billion; won-not-booked backlog of $4.9 billion.

Total Revenue
$3.09B
Previous year: $2.95B
+4.7%
EPS
$0.74
Previous year: $0.28
+164.3%
Global Beverage Can Volume Growth
9%
Aerospace Backlog Growth
14%
Gross Profit
$663M
Previous year: $590M
+12.4%
Cash and Equivalents
$771M
Previous year: $483M
+59.6%
Free Cash Flow
$341M
Previous year: $253M
+34.8%
Total Assets
$17B
Previous year: $16.2B
+4.5%

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Forward Guidance

Company expects to allocate significant capital to organic growth investments and return value to shareholders. 2020 capital expenditures are expected to exceed $900 million, and growth investments are expected to be in excess of $1 billion in 2021 and beyond.

Positive Outlook

  • Significant cash from operations
  • Flexibility and opportunity to allocate significant capital to organic growth investments
  • Continuing to return value to shareholders
  • On-track to execute multiple growth projects as efficiently and safely as possible with employees, customers and supply chains
  • Well positioned to further broaden scale to serve future growth with an even higher level of customer service

Revenue & Expenses

Visualization of income flow from segment revenue to net income