Should You Expect Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) To Recover From Its 4.44% Gain From Highs?

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Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS)’s traded shares stood at 1.17 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.66. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $8.33, to imply a decrease of -2.46% or -$0.21 in intraday trading. The KSS share’s 52-week high remains $29.60, putting it -255.34% down since that peak but still an impressive 4.44% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $7.96. The company has a valuation of $927.27M, with an average of 18.89 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 9.26 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Kohl’s Corp (KSS), translating to a mean rating of 3.73. Of 13 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 3 analyst(s) give KSS a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 6 advise Hold as 4 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.6.

Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) trade information

After registering a -2.46% downside in the latest session, Kohl’s Corp (KSS) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 3.35%, and -30.58% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -40.67%. Short interest in Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) saw shorts transact 54.43 million shares and set a 7.34 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $8 and $11 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, KSS has been trading -32.05% off suggested target high and 3.96% from its likely low.

Kohl’s Corp (KSS) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -4.77% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 8 analysts is 3.02B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 8 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 3.36B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 3.18B and 3.52B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -5.13% before dropping -4.74% in the following quarter.

KSS Dividends

Kohl’s Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Mar-10. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Kohl’s Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 1.50, with the share yield ticking at 18.01% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 7.01%.

Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS)’s Major holders

Kohl’s Corp insiders hold 2.57% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 107.69% of the shares at 110.53% float percentage. In total, 107.69% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 17.65 million shares (or 15.9042% of shares), all amounting to roughly $405.86 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 11.95 million shares, or about 10.7673% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $274.77 million.

We also have Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF and Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Kohl’s Corp (KSS) shares. Going by data provided on Oct 31, 2024, Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF holds roughly 8.86 shares. This is just over 7.96% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $73.85 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 7.63, or 6.85% of the shares, all valued at about 63.57 million.