With 0.78 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.38 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $107.22 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $103.28. The 52-week range on KNF shows that it touched its highest point at $107.72 and its lowest point at $61.50 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $112.17. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.93.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.07%, but this was up by 6.86% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 28.94% while six-month performance rose 50.66%. The stock gained 69.06% in the past year, while it has gained 59.76% 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 7.70% 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 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 1.35 million, which was 238.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1730332800. 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 0.83924 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 100.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 114.0. Based on these targets, KNF could surge 18.23% to reach the target high and fall by -5.42% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.82% 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.
