Kellanova (NYSE:K) has a beta value of 0.27 and has seen 1.33 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $27.63B, closed the recent trade at $79.63 per share which meant it lost -$0.04 on the day or -0.05% during that session. The K stock price is -4.51% off its 52-week high price of $83.22 and 29.72% above the 52-week low of $55.96. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 3.1 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 3.63 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Kellanova (K) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 3.00. 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 10 out of 14 have rated it as a Hold, with 2 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Kellanova (NYSE:K) trade information
Sporting -0.05% in the red today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the K stock price touched $79.63 or saw a rise of 0.24%. Year-to-date, Kellanova shares have moved 40.09%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 0.35%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Kellanova (NYSE:K) have changed -0.74%. Short interest in the company has seen 9.59 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.56.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $74, which means that the shares’ value could drop -7.61% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $60.0 while the price target rests at a high of $87.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -9.26% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 24.65% from the levels at last check today..
Kellanova (K) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -2.31% over the past 6 months.
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 6.76% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -4.00% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 1.19%.
K Dividends
Kellanova is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-01 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 2.28 at a share yield of 2.86%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 3.49%.
Kellanova (NYSE:K)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.51% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 82.34% with a share float percentage of 82.77%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Kellanova having a total of 1281.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are KELLOGG W K FOUNDATION TRUST with over 51.22 million shares worth more than $2.95 billion. As of 2024-06-30, KELLOGG W K FOUNDATION TRUST held 14.9766% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 31.64 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.82 billion and represent 9.2512% 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 Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.52% shares in the company for having 8.75 shares of worth $696.93 million while later fund manager owns 7.47 shares of worth $594.6 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.15% of company’s outstanding stock.
