Earnings and Dividends Per Share

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

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)	2022		2021
Net earnings attributable to Ball Corporation	$	446	$	200
Basic weighted average common shares		320,904		327,811
Effect of dilutive securities		5,012		5,862
Weighted average shares applicable to diluted earnings per share		325,916		333,673
Per basic share	$	1.39	$	0.61
Per diluted share	$	1.37	$	0.60

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). Ball excluded two million and one million anti-dilutive options for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

The company declared and paid dividends of $0.20 per share and $0.15 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.