Currently, there are 455.90M common shares owned by the public and among those 449.45M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 21 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 13 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 194,176 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 8 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 240,484 shares.
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The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.36% and -15.04% over the past three months. KOS shares are trading -14.16% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -23.20% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $5.28 and touched a high of $8.55 over the same period. KOS has an average intraday trading volume of 4.82 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -1.63%, -8.45%, and -14.28% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE: KOS) shares accounts for 97.66% of the company’s 455.90M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.65B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 2.39. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 13.10, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.44. The company has a PEG of 0.55 and a Quick Ratio of 0.54 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.32. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.94% over the week and 4.46% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) will achieve an EPS of $0.23 for the current quarter, $0.13 for the next quarter and $0.99 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.22 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.27. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.23 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 0.73%, and -3.31% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the KOS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Stifel stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on November 20, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $10. Bernstein coverage for the Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stock in a research note released on October 17, 2023 offered a Mkt Perform rating with a price target of $9. BofA Securities was of a view on September 27, 2023 that the stock is Buy, while Redburn gave the stock Buy rating on July 20, 2023, issuing a price target of $9. Peel Hunt on their part issued Add rating on March 10, 2023.
