With 14.96 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 9.6 million shares. The 52-week range on KOS shows that it touched its highest point at $6.58 and its lowest point at $2.58 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $5.67. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.32.
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 KOS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -13.19%, but this was down by -23.08% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -34.73% while six-month performance fell -47.81%. The stock lost -58.61% in the past year, while it has lost -26.90% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KOS yields 0.39 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.40. For the next quarter, that number is -0.06. This implies an EPS growth rate of -66.64% for this year and 187.83% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 471.90 million KOS shares are outstanding with a float of 457.43 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KOS 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.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.87462 being high and $0.1971 being low. For KOS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.51738. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.03 and the low estimate is -$0.07. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.02.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded KOS stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
