Earnings and Dividends Per Share

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Earnings and Dividends Per Share

Earnings and Dividends Per Share

19.    Earnings and Dividends Per Share

	Three Months Ended March 31,
($ in millions, except per share amounts; shares in thousands)	2020		2019
Net earnings attributable to Ball Corporation	$	23	$	117
Basic weighted average common shares		325,346		334,239
Effect of dilutive securities		6,980		8,437
Weighted average shares applicable to diluted earnings per share		332,326		342,676
Per basic share	$	0.07	$	0.35
Per diluted share	$	0.07	$	0.34

Certain outstanding options are excluded from the diluted earnings per share calculation because they are anti-dilutive (i.e., their assumed conversion into common stock would increase rather than decrease earnings per share). The options excluded totaled 1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019.

The company declared and paid dividends of $0.15 per share in the three months ended March 31, 2020 and $0.10 per share in the three months ended March 31, 2019, respectively.