During the last session, Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS)’s traded shares were 11.53 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.45. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $3.72, reflecting an intraday gain of 8.77% or $0.3. The 52-week high for the KOS share is $6.93, that puts it down -86.29 from that peak though still a striking 29.57% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.62. The company’s market capitalization is $1.76B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 10.33 million shares, and the average trade volume was 9.44 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 8.77% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 8.77% in intraday trading to $3.72, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 20.00%, and it has moved by -2.11% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -44.73%. The short interest in Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) is 40.45 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.73 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $5.3, which implies an increase of 29.81% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $5 and $5.6 respectively. As a result, KOS is trading at a discount of -50.54% off the target high and -34.41% 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 -36.30% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -46.84% against -8.00.
While earnings are projected to return -35.46% in 2025, the next five years will return 23.80% per annum.
KOS Dividends
Kosmos Energy Ltd is due to release its next quarterly earnings in February. 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 101.49%, with the float percentage being 103.68%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 380.0 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.
