With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.42 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $98.27 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $95.25. The 52-week range on KNF shows that it touched its highest point at $108.39 and its lowest point at $61.82 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $117.83. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.00.
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 KNF was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.35%, but this was down by -6.74% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 11.41% while six-month performance rose 35.02%. The stock gained 51.65% in the past year, while it has lost -3.35% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KNF yields 3.50 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.09. For the next quarter, that number is 0.34. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.71% for this year and 17.62% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 56.61 million KNF shares are outstanding with a float of 56.20 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 1.61 million, which was 283.99998 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Brian R. Gray as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Nathan W. Ring serves as its VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.83979 of KNF’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, KNF reported revenue of $1105293000.0 and operating income of $209137000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $246419000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.6.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KNF 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 KNF analysts setting a high price target of 125.0 and a low target of 115.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 121.5. Based on these targets, KNF could surge 27.24% to reach the target high and rise by 17.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.68% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.55831 being high and $3.38886 being low. For KNF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.47857.
