In the last trading session, 9.78 million Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.45. With the company’s per share price at $1.97 changed hands at $0.07 or 3.68% during last session, the market valuation stood at $941.68M. KOS’s last price was a discount, traded about -203.05% off its 52-week high of $5.97. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.38, which suggests the last value was 29.95% up since then. When we look at Kosmos Energy Ltd’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 10.74 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 11.30 million.
Analysts gave the Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.80. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended KOS as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) trade information
Instantly KOS was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 11.93%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -42.40%, with the 5-day performance at 11.93% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) is 13.22% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 44.17 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.93 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 5.6, meaning bulls need an upside of 64.82% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, KOS’s forecast low is 5.6 with 5.6 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -184.26% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -184.26% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Kosmos Energy Ltd earnings to decrease by -147.03%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -7.68% per year.
KOS Dividends
Kosmos Energy Ltd is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-05.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.08% of Kosmos Energy Ltd shares while 99.46% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 101.57%. There are 99.46% institutions holding the Kosmos Energy Ltd stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 10.0551% of the shares, roughly 47.42 million KOS shares worth $262.71 million.
FMR LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.2472% or 38.89 million shares worth $215.47 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Feb 28, 2025 were GMO TRUST-GMO Resources Fund and Advisor Managed Portfolios-Patient Opportunity Trust . With 27.17 shares estimated at $53.52 million under it, the former controlled 5.68% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Advisor Managed Portfolios-Patient Opportunity Trust held about 2.93% of the shares, roughly 14.0 shares worth around $27.58 million.
