Currently, there are 471.82M common shares owned by the public and among those 453.02M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 16.26% and -15.96% over the past three months. KOS shares are trading 10.82% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -43.68% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $2.62 and touched a high of $6.88 over the same period. KOS has an average intraday trading volume of 9.52 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 13.87%, 4.10%, and -21.79% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE: KOS) shares accounts for 99.83% of the company’s 471.82M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $1.85B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 2.44. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 8.36, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.45. The company has a PEG of 0.35 and a Quick Ratio of 0.47 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.25. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.72% over the week and 6.97% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -34.45%, and -5.68% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the KOS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Jefferies stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on December 18, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $5.60. Mizuho coverage for the Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stock in a research note released on September 19, 2024 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $5. Stifel was of a view on November 20, 2023 that the stock is Buy, while Bernstein gave the stock Mkt Perform rating on October 17, 2023, issuing a price target of $12- $9. BofA Securities on their part issued Buy rating on September 27, 2023.
