Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI): Buy, Sell Or Hold At $18.35?

In last trading session, Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) saw 12.52 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.89. Company’s recent per share price level of $18.35 trading at $0.08 or 0.44% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $40.73B. That closing price of KMI’s stock is at a discount of -2.02% from its 52-week high price of $18.72 and is indicating a premium of 13.41% from its 52-week low price of $15.89. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 11.03 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 14.09 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.44%, in the last five days KMI remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 04/08/24 when the stock touched $18.35 price level, adding 1.45% to its value on the day. Kinder Morgan Inc’s shares saw a change of 4.02% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.43% in past 5-day. Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) showed a performance of 2.29% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 44.29 million shares which calculate 3.22 days to cover the short interests.

Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Kinder Morgan Inc is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 9.10% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 9.35% while that of industry is -0.10. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 16.90% from the last financial year’s standing.

6 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of $4.47 billion for the same. And 6 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of $4.18 billion in the next quarter that will end on Jun 2024.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 9.87% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 12.84% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 5.30%.

KMI Dividends

Kinder Morgan Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report between April 17 and April 22 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt.

Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 12.81% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 64.40 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 73.86%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 64.40% institutions for Kinder Morgan Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc is the top institutional holder at KMI for having 173.46 million shares of worth $2.99 billion. And as of Jun 29, 2023, it was holding 7.78% of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., which was holding about 156.36 million shares on Jun 29, 2023. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.02% of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $2.69 billion.

On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Select Sector SPDR Fund-Energy Select are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager was holding 59.29 million shares of worth $1.02 billion or 2.66% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 53.69 million shares on Aug 30, 2023, making its stake of worth around $924.6 million in the company or a holder of 2.41% of company’s stock.