With 0.71 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.49 million shares. During the session, the Marine Shipping company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $108.175 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $104.285. The 52-week range on KEX shows that it touched its highest point at $132.21 and its lowest point at $74.88 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $139.57. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.21.
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 KEX was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.35%, but this was down by -15.95% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -14.43% while six-month performance fell -13.66%. The stock gained 32.89% in the past year, while it has lost -0.78% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KEX yields 5.21 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.73. For the next quarter, that number is 1.29. This implies an EPS growth rate of 46.74% for this year and 23.24% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 30.29% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 23.26%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 57.60 million KEX shares are outstanding with a float of 56.86 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.6 million, which was 105.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. David W. Grzebinski C.F.A. as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Christian G. O’Neil serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99265 of KEX’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 2021-10-28, KEX reported revenue of $831149000.0 and operating income of $125313000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $188915000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.55.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KEX since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 KEX analysts setting a high price target of 142.0 and a low target of 136.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 139.83333. Based on these targets, KEX could surge 35.28% to reach the target high and rise by 29.56% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 33.21% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $5.48862 being high and $5.40849 being low. For KEX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.45857.
