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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
Ball Corporation common stock is listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BALL. There were 8,354 common shareholders of record on February 18, 2025.
Common Stock Repurchases
The following table summarizes the company’s repurchases of its common stock during the fourth quarter of 2024.
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| Purchases of Securities | |||||||||
| ($ in millions) | Total Number of Shares Purchased (a) | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (a) | Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (b) | |||||
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| October 1 to October 31, 2024 | | 1,893,489 | | $ | 66.04 | | 1,893,489 | | 27,117,752 |
| November 1 to November 30, 2024 | | 3,865,124 | | | 61.50 | | 3,865,124 | | 23,252,628 |
| December 1 to December 31, 2024 | | 4,972,167 | | | 58.32 | | 4,972,167 | | 18,280,461 |
| Total | | 10,730,780 | | | | | 10,730,780 | | |
| (a) | Includes any open market purchases (on a trade-date basis), share repurchase agreements and/or shares retained by the company to settle employee withholding tax liabilities. |
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| (b) | On April 24, 2024, Ball’s Board of Directors approved the repurchase by the company of up to a total of 40 million shares of its common stock. This repurchase authorization replaced all previous authorizations. On January 29, 2025, the Board of Directors approved the repurchase by the company of up to a total of $4.00 billion in shares of its common stock. This repurchase authorization replaced the April 24, 2024, authorization. |
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Shareholder Return Performance
The line graph below compares the annual percentage change in Ball Corporation’s cumulative total shareholder return on its common stock with the cumulative total return of the Dow Jones Containers & Packaging Index and the S&P Composite 500 Stock Index for the five-year period ended December 31, 2024. The graph assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2019, and that all dividends were reinvested. The Dow Jones Containers & Packaging Index total return has been weighted by market capitalization.
Total Return Analysis
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| | | 12/31/2019 | | 12/31/2020 | | 12/31/2021 | | 12/31/2022 | | 12/31/2023 | | 12/31/2024 | ||||||
| BALL | | $ | 100.00 | | $ | 145.19 | | $ | 151.18 | | $ | 81.29 | | $ | 92.79 | | $ | 90.04 |
| S&P 500 | | | 100.00 | | | 118.40 | | | 152.39 | | | 124.79 | | | 157.59 | | | 197.02 |
| DJ US Containers & Packaging | | | 100.00 | | | 121.14 | | | 134.41 | | | 110.49 | | | 118.91 | | | 136.67 |
Source: Bloomberg
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