Kosmos Energy Ltd: Why Investors Shouldn’t Get Rid Of KOS Stock In 2025

In the last trading session, 2.31 million shares of the Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) were traded, and its beta was 1.91. Most recently the company’s share price was $2.39, and it changed around -$0.11 or -4.46% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $1.14B. KOS currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $6.58, offering almost -175.31% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $2.45, which indicates that the current value has fallen by an impressive -2.51% since then.

Kosmos Energy Ltd stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 2.00. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 3 recommended KOS as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Kosmos Energy Ltd is expected to report earnings per share of -0.14 for the current quarter.

Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) trade information

Instantly KOS has showed a red trend with a performance of -4.46% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 2.83 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 15.55%. The company’s shares are currently down -30.16% year-to-date, but still down -10.21% over the last five days. On the other hand, Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) is -24.89% down in the 30-day period.

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $5.3, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 54.91% from its current value. Analyst projections state that KOS is forecast to be at a low of $5 and a high of $5.6.

Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 2.71%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 2 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 338.25M in revenue for the current quarter. 2 analysts expect Kosmos Energy Ltd to make 436.68M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 419.14M and 450.94M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -19.30%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -3.16%. Kosmos Energy Ltd earnings are expected to increase by -70.11% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 3.98% per year for the next five years.

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

FMR LLC, with 8.3099% or 38.89 million shares worth $215.47 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

GMO Resources Fund and Trust for Advised Port-Patient Opportunity Trust were the top two Mutual Funds as of Nov 30, 2024. The former held 22.74 shares worth $52.92 million, making up 4.76% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Trust for Advised Port-Patient Opportunity Trust held roughly 13.5 shares worth around $31.42 million, which represents about 2.82% of the total shares outstanding.