With 0.5 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.78 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $41.135 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $40.3976. The 52-week range on KGS shows that it touched its highest point at $44.20 and its lowest point at $19.78 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $41.50. With its current market cap of 3.57 billion, KGS has annualized dividend of $1.58 while the current yield stands at 3.86%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.04.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KGS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.01%, but this was up by 3.00% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 42.30% while six-month performance rose 52.14%. The stock gained 102.32% in the past year, while it has gained 103.74% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KGS yields 0.30 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.84. For the next quarter, that number is 0.40. This implies an EPS growth rate of 285.16% for this year and 64.42% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 84.51 million KGS shares are outstanding with a float of 45.86 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 2.15 million, which was 246.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Robert M. McKee as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. John B. Griggs serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.81702006 of KGS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, KGS reported revenue of $324647000.0 and operating income of $86376000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $159672000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.07.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KGS since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KGS analysts setting a high price target of 46.0 and a low target of 31.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 39.66667. Based on these targets, KGS could surge 12.44% to reach the target high and fall by -24.22% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -3.04% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.3514 being high and $0.86875 being low. For KGS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.11697. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.51 and the low estimate is $0.34. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.41.
