In the latest trading session, 0.85 million Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.43. With the company’s most recent per share price at $4.01 changed hands at -$0.07 or -1.59% at last look, the market valuation stands at $1.89B. KOS’s current price is a discount, trading about -91.52% off its 52-week high of $7.68. The share price had its 52-week low at $3.69, which suggests the last value was 7.98% up since then. When we look at Kosmos Energy Ltd’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 6.79 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.02 million.
Analysts gave the Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.40. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended KOS as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Kosmos Energy Ltd’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.08.
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Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) trade information
Instantly KOS was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -3.49%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -40.16%, with the 5-day performance at -3.49% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) is -4.63% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 46.49 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 6.14 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 8, meaning bulls need an upside of 49.88% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, KOS’s forecast low is 5 with 11 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -174.31% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -24.69% for it to hit the projected low.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Kosmos Energy Ltd share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -32.52% over the past 6 months, a -41.77% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -4.50%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 32.40% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 3 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 411.51M. 3 analysts are of the opinion that Kosmos Energy Ltd’s revenue for the current quarter will be 451.03M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 526.35M and 400.92M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -21.80%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 12.50%.
The 2024 estimates are for Kosmos Energy Ltd earnings to decrease by -26.62%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 23.80% per year.
KOS Dividends
Kosmos Energy Ltd is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Nov-04.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.11% of Kosmos Energy Ltd shares while 100.48% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 102.65%. There are 100.48% institutions holding the Kosmos Energy Ltd stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 10.1315% of the shares, roughly 47.42 million KOS shares worth $262.71 million.
FMR LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.3099% or 38.89 million shares worth $215.47 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of May 31, 2024 were GMO Resources Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. With 20.25 shares estimated at $81.3 million under it, the former controlled 4.29% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.57% of the shares, roughly 12.14 shares worth around $48.75 million.
