| Rising from runner-up to the third team is Ghansham Panjabi of Robert W. Baird & Co. Based in Roseland, New Jersey, and active on 16 stocks, Panjabi reiterated an outperform rating on Ball Corp. in October 2011, when a disappointing quarter made shares dip to $29.94. (He had upgraded them from neutral in June 2009, at a split-adjusted $20.95, after the Broomfield, Colorado–based producer of metal and plastic containers added manufacturing plants in Brazil, China, Mexico and Vietnam to meet rising demand.) The stock had shot to $42.17 by the end of August, for a gain of 40.8 percent that allowed Ball to trump its peers by 13.6 percentage points since Panjabi’s reiteration. “His consistently differentiated views helped us make money,” attests one sponsor. RUNNER(S)-UP Gail Glazerman Philip Gresh III Mark Weintraub |
