What Are The Chances Of KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR) Being A Good Investment?

KKR & Co. Inc (NYSE:KKR) has a beta value of 1.92 and has seen 0.7 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $90.21B, closed the recent trade at $101.56 per share which meant it gained $3.61 on the day or 3.69% during that session. The KKR stock price is -67.78% off its 52-week high price of $170.40 and 15.17% above the 52-week low of $86.15. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 8.53 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 6.59 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that KKR & Co. Inc (KKR) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.41. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 15 have rated it as a Hold, with 14 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 1.13.

KKR & Co. Inc (NYSE:KKR) trade information

Sporting 3.69% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the KKR stock price touched $101.56 or saw a rise of 4.15%. Year-to-date, KKR & Co. Inc shares have moved -31.34%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -1.52%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of KKR & Co. Inc (NYSE:KKR) have changed -12.82%. Short interest in the company has seen 10.24 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.45.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $141, which means that the shares’ value could jump 27.97% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $119.0 while the price target rests at a high of $185.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -82.16% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -17.17% from the levels at last check today..

KKR & Co. Inc (KKR) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -26.32% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 15.20%.

5 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.71B for the current quarter. 5 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.9B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.39B and 1.73B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 22.79% for the current quarter and 15.20% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -1.51% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 11.31% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 20.53%.

KKR Dividends

KKR & Co. Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-03 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.70 at a share yield of 0.69%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 1.01%.

KKR & Co. Inc (NYSE:KKR)’s Major holders

Insiders own 23.79% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 61.43% with a share float percentage of 80.60%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with KKR & Co. Inc having a total of 1688.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 55.4 million shares worth more than $5.83 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 6.2427% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 43.39 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $4.57 billion and represent 4.8893% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager holds about 2.35% shares in the company for having 20.88 shares of worth $2.12 billion while later fund manager owns 18.27 shares of worth $1.86 billion as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 2.06% of company’s outstanding stock.