During the last session, Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS)’s traded shares were 1.12 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.44. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $4.07, reflecting an intraday gain of 4.23% or $0.17. The 52-week high for the KOS share is $7.07, that puts it down -73.71 from that peak though still a striking 14.25% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $3.49. The company’s market capitalization is $1.92B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 9.76 million shares, and the average trade volume was 7.78 million shares over the past three months.

Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.55. KOS has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 1 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.

Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) trade information

Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) registered a 4.23% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 4.23% in intraday trading to $4.07, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.09%, and it has moved by 2.14% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -39.96%. The short interest in Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) is 43.82 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.93 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $8, which implies an increase of 49.12% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $5 and $11 respectively. As a result, KOS is trading at a discount of -170.27% off the target high and -22.85% off the low.

Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Kosmos Energy Ltd has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) shares have gone down -29.43% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -43.04% against -7.40.

While earnings are projected to return -36.83% in 2024, the next five years will return 23.80% per annum.

KOS Dividends

Kosmos Energy Ltd is due to release its next quarterly earnings in December. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS)’s Major holders

Kosmos Energy Ltd insiders own 2.11% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 98.44%, with the float percentage being 100.56%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 382.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 47.42 million shares (or 10.1315% of all shares), a total value of $262.71 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 38.89 million shares, is of FMR LLC’s that is approximately 8.3099% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $215.47 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) shares are GMO Resources Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. Data provided on Aug 31, 2024 indicates that GMO Resources Fund owns about 21.61 shares. This amounts to just over 4.58 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $87.51 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 12.14, or about 2.57% of the stock, which is worth about $49.18 million.