What does operating segments — gain on restructuring mean?

Financial gains resulting from restructuring or reorganizing business units.

How do you interpret operating segments — gain on restructuring?

An increase indicates successful divestiture or cost-saving measures that provide a one-time boost to earnings.

How does operating segments — gain on restructuring compare across companies?

Event-specific; only comparable when peers are undergoing similar strategic divestitures.

Ball Corporation BALL Operating Segments — Gain On Restructuring

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '15

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MLIOperating Segments — Gain Loss On Sale Of Business

$375K—

GTLSOperating Segments — Restructuring Charges

$200K-77.8%

ROperating Segments — Restructuring And Other Charges Recoveries Net

$7.06M+122%

BLDOperating Segments — Restructuring Charges

$500—

CRLOperating Segments — Restructuring Charges

$1.19M-73.3%

CCKOperating Segments — Restructuring Charges

$3.25M+8.3%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.6B+16.3%

Gross profit$646.0M+7.0%

Operating income$196.0M-26.6%

Net income$205.0M+14.5%

EPS (diluted)$0.77+22.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$730.0M+62.6%

Total debt$7.9B+16.0%

Total equity$5.6B+1.8%

Total assets$19.8B+9.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow-$777.0M-16.8%

CapEx$161.0M+98.8%

Free cash flow-$938.0M-25.7%

Valuation

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Market cap$15.37B+7.0%

Enterprise value$22.53B+8.7%

P/E16.3×-12.0×

P/S1.1×-0.1×

Profitability

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Gross margin19.2%-1.2pp

Operating margin9.6%+2.1pp

Net margin6.9%+2.7pp

FCF margin0.3%—

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity17%+9.0pp

Debt / equity1.4×+0.2×

Current ratio1.1×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Ball Corporation in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept bll:GainOnRestructuring.

The official record: Ball Corporation’s 10-Q, filed April 29, 2016, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does operating segments — gain on restructuring mean?: Financial gains resulting from restructuring or reorganizing business units.
How do you interpret operating segments — gain on restructuring?: An increase indicates successful divestiture or cost-saving measures that provide a one-time boost to earnings.
How does operating segments — gain on restructuring compare across companies?: Event-specific; only comparable when peers are undergoing similar strategic divestitures.