In last trading session, Kirby Corp (NYSE:KEX) saw 0.76 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.03. Company’s recent per share price level of $115.84 trading at $0.08 or 0.07% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $6.50B. That closing price of KEX’s stock is at a discount of -14.13% from its 52-week high price of $132.21 and is indicating a premium of 27.54% from its 52-week low price of $83.94. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.48 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 517.12K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Kirby Corp (KEX), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.29. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Kirby Corp (NYSE:KEX) trade information
Kirby Corp’s shares saw a change of -10.61% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.97% in past 5-day. Kirby Corp (NYSE:KEX) showed a performance of 2.32% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.21 million shares which calculate 4.37 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 116.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 0.57% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 115 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 118. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 0.73% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 0.73% for stock’s current value.
Kirby Corp (KEX) estimates and forecasts
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 15.69% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 19.90% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 10.22%.
Kirby Corp (NYSE:KEX)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.72% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 101.40 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 102.13%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 101.40% institutions for Kirby Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at KEX for having 6.03 million shares of worth $721.62 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.3592 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 4.98 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.5613 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $596.38 million.
