{"id":2699,"date":"2010-01-28T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:28:21","slug":"ball-posts-higher-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/2699\/ball-posts-higher-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Posts Higher Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Corporation <span>(<a title=\"Ball Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymarkets.com\/symbol\/BLL\/\">BLL<\/a>)<\/span> reported<br \/>\nfourth quarter earnings of 84 cents per share, beating the Zacks<br \/>\nConsensus Estimate of 71 cents. The company posted year over year<br \/>\nearnings growth of 50% for the quarter. Strong earnings growth in<br \/>\nthe quarter was driven by higher sales as well as an improved<br \/>\noperating performance.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nNet sales in the quarter increased 7.6% to $1,864.4 million from<br \/>\n$1,732.8 million a year ago. Lower sales in the Plastic Packaging,<br \/>\nAmericas and Metal Food and the Aerospace \u2026 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymarkets.com\/stocks\/2010\/01\/28\/ball-posts-higher-profits\/\">visit<br \/>\nsite to read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mem2XwTGUpMjwaxK_2_kZ_y3Hwc\/0\/da\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mem2XwTGUpMjwaxK_2_kZ_y3Hwc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mem2XwTGUp%E2%80%A6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SecretsoftraderscomMasterFeed\/~4\/9RsxEhsqiJo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Corporation (BLL) reported fourth quarter earnings of 84 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 71 cents. The company posted year over year earnings growth of 50% for the quarter. Strong earnings growth in the quarter was driven by higher sales as well as an improved operating performance. &nbsp; Net sales in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}