With 6.97 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 8.14 million shares. The 52-week range on KSS shows that it touched its highest point at $29.60 and its lowest point at $10.91 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.69. With its current market cap of 1.26 billion, KSS has annualized dividend of $2.00 while the current yield stands at 17.61%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.57.
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 KSS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.94%, but this was down by -12.48% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -24.11% while six-month performance fell -41.41%. The stock lost -59.05% in the past year, while it has lost -19.09% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KSS yields 2.22 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.22. For the next quarter, that number is 0.73. This implies an EPS growth rate of -55.21% for this year and -4.78% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -25.84% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -10.07%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 111.00 million KSS shares are outstanding with a float of 108.25 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 KSS since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 3 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 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 $2.57189 being high and $2.30654 being low. For KSS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.46983. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.19 and the low estimate is -$0.45. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.3.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded KSS 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.
