During the recent session, Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS)’s traded shares were 1.25 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.51. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $1.76, reflecting an intraday gain of 6.07% or $0.1. The 52-week high for the KOS share is $6.33, that puts it down -259.66 from that peak though still a striking 21.59% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $1.38. The company’s market capitalization is $841.44M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 14.85 million shares, and the average trade volume was 10.33 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 2.00. 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. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.1.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) trade information
Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) registered a 6.07% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 6.07% in intraday trading to $1.76, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 10.04%, and it has moved by -23.78% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -71.09%. The short interest in Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) is 46.96 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.21 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $5.6, which implies an increase of 68.57% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $5.6 and $5.6 respectively. As a result, KOS is trading at a discount of -218.18% off the target high and -218.18% off the low.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 3.54% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 329.15M as predicted by 3 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 3 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 439.97M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 419.14M and 450.94M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -21.47% and then drop by -2.43% in the coming quarter.
While earnings are projected to return -88.94% in 2025, the next five years will return -4.45% per annum.
KOS Dividends
Kosmos Energy Ltd is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-23. 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 2.18% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 96.18%, with the float percentage being 98.32%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 369.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 47.42 million shares (or 10.0551% 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 8.2472% 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 TRUST-GMO Resources Fund and Advisor Managed Portfolios-Patient Opportunity Trust . Data provided on Nov 30, 2024 indicates that GMO TRUST-GMO Resources Fund owns about 22.74 shares. This amounts to just over 4.76 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $39.57 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 13.5, or about 2.82% of the stock, which is worth about $23.49 million.
