On Friday, Shares of Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL), lost -2.44% to $67.84.
Ball Corporation, stated second quarter 2015 net earnings attributable to the corporation of $160.4 million, or $1.13 per diluted share (counting net after tax income of $35.0 million, or 24 cents per diluted share for debt refinancing, economic hedging gains, business consolidation and other costs) on sales of $2.2 billion, contrast to $153.1 million, or $1.07 per diluted share, on sales of $2.3 billion in the second quarter of 2014. Results for the first six months of 2015 were net earnings attributable to the corporation of $181.1 million, or $1.28 per diluted share, on sales of $4.1 billion, contrast to $246.6 million, or $1.72 per diluted share, on sales of $4.3 billion in the first six months of 2014.
Comparable earnings per diluted share for the second quarter and year-to-date 2015 were 89 cents and $1.57, respectively, as compared to second quarter and year-to-date 2014 comparable earnings per diluted share of $1.13 and $1.94, respectively.
Ball Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, supplies metal packaging products to the beverage, food, personal care, and household products industries worldwide. It operates in four segments: Metal Beverage Packaging, Americas, and Asia; Metal Beverage Packaging, Europe; Metal Food and Household Products Packaging; and Aerospace and Technologies.
Shares of Royal Bank of Canadav (NYSE:RY), inclined 0.27% to $58.35, during its last trading session.
Royal Bank of Canada, declared that it has accomplished the formerly declared sale of RBC Royal Bank (Suriname) N.V. to Republic Bank Limited.
Royal Bank of Canada, together with its auxiliaries, operates as a diversified financial service company worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Personal & Commercial Banking, Wealth Administration, Insurance, Investor & Treasury Services, and Capital Markets.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of Allison Transmission Holdings Inc (NYSE:ALSN), gained 0.52% to $29.18.
Allison Transmission Holdings, stated net sales for the second quarter of $511 million, a 5 percent decrease from the same period in 2014. The decrease in net sales was principally driven by lower demand in the global Off-Highway and Defense end markets partially offset by the continued recovery in the North America On-Highway end market, higher demand in the Outside North America On-Highway end market and price enhances on certain products.
Adjusted Net Income, a non-GAAP financial measure, for the quarter was $98 million, contrast to Adjusted Net Income of $117 million for the same period in 2014, a decrease of $19 million. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, for the quarter was $186 million, or 36.3 percent of net sales, contrast to $186 million, or 34.7 percent of net sales, for the same period in 2014. Adjusted Free Cash Flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, for the quarter was $140 million, or $0.78 per diluted share, contrast to $135 million for the same period in 2014, or $0.74 per diluted share.
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, designs, manufactures, and sells commercial and defense fully-automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, and medium- and heavy-tactical U.S. defense vehicles.
Finally, Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK), ended its last trade with 1.00% gain, and closed at $69.94.
Splunk declared it has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Administration (SIEM) for the third straight year. Splunk was the only vendor to improve its completeness of vision from last year’s results. Gartner evaluated the Splunk security portfolio, counting Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk App for Enterprise Security, used by thousands of organizations around the world. To view the report, go to: http://www.splunk.com/goto/SIEM_MQ.
According to Gartner report authors Kelly Kavanagh, principal research analyst, and Oliver Rochford, research director, “The greatest area of unmet need is effective targeted attack and breach detection. Organizations are failing at early breach detection, with more than 92 percent of breaches undetected by the breached organization. The situation can be improved with stronger threat intelligence, the addition of behavior profiling and better analytics.”
Splunk, Inc. provides software products that enable organizations to gain real-time operational intelligence in the United States and internationally. The companys products enable users to collect, index, search, explore, monitor, and analyze data regardless of format or source users.
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