Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

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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 7,385 common shareholders of record on February 17, 2026.

Common Stock Repurchases

The following table summarizes the company’s repurchases of its common stock during the fourth quarter of 2025.


Purchases of Securities
	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 Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (b)

October 1 to October 31, 2025	1,856,168	$	48.95	1,856,168	$	3,049,987,369
November 1 to November 30, 2025	2,314,651		48.40	2,314,651		2,939,112,414
December 1 to December 31, 2025	285,600		49.28	285,600		2,925,127,964
Total	4,456,419			4,456,419

(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.

(b)	The company has an ongoing repurchase program for which shares are authorized from time to time by Ball’s Board of Directors. On January 29, 2025, the Board approved the repurchase by the company of up to $4.00 billion in shares of its common stock through the end of 2027. This repurchase authorization replaced all previous authorizations_._

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, 2025. The graph assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2020, and that all dividends were reinvested. The Dow Jones Containers & Packaging Index total return has been weighted by market capitalization.

Total Return Analysis


	12/31/2020		12/31/2021		12/31/2022		12/31/2023		12/31/2024		12/31/2025
BALL	$	100.00	$	104.13	$	55.99	$	63.91	$	62.01	$	60.52
S&P 500		100.00		128.71		105.40		133.10		166.40		196.16
DJ US Containers & Packaging		100.00		110.96		91.21		98.16		112.83		99.86

Source: Bloomberg

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