Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) Shares Plunged -3.91% In A Week – But Will They Keep Going Up?

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In last trading session, Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) saw 13.26 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.61. Company’s recent per share price level of $8.60 trading at $0.34 or 4.12% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $957.33M. That closing price of KSS’s stock is at a discount of -234.53% from its 52-week high price of $28.77 and is indicating a premium of 7.44% from its 52-week low price of $7.96. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 11.23 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 9.79 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Kohl’s Corp (KSS), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 3.41. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 13 analysts covering the stock, 3 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 6 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 4.12%, in the last five days KSS remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 03/27/25 when the stock touched $8.60 price level, adding 3.26% to its value on the day. Kohl’s Corp’s shares saw a change of -38.75% in year-to-date performance and have moved -3.91% in past 5-day. Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) showed a performance of -24.36% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 49.0 million shares which calculate 3.83 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 9.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 9.47% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 8 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 11. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 6.98% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 6.98% for stock’s current value.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -25.96% during past 5 years.

KSS Dividends

Kohl’s Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-10 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 18.90%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.62 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 7.03%.

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

Insiders are in possession of 2.39% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 107.49 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 110.13%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 107.49% institutions for Kohl’s Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at KSS for having 17.65 million shares of worth $405.86 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.9042 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 11.95 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.7673 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $274.77 million.