Manufacturing  July 30, 2015

Ball earnings, revenue rise in second quarter

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BROOMFIELD — Second-quarter financial figures reported Thursday by Broomfield-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) fell below Wall Street analysts’ prediction for earnings but exceeded their forecast for revenue.

Ball, famous for metal and glass packaging and as the parent of Boulder-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies, reported second-quarter net income of $160.4 million, or$1.13 per share, compared with $153.1 million, or $1.07 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2014.

The company reported that earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 89 cents per share, below the 94-cent average estimate from five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.…

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