Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $3.46, with 12.87 million shares of worth about $44.54 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -28.81% during that period and on February 19, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 4.53%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 471.82M shares, out of which, 451.58M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 7.12% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.62%. Year-to-date (YTD), KOS shares are showing a performance of 1.17% which decreased to -42.33% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $2.62 but also hit the highest price of $6.58 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kosmos Energy Ltd shares is 8.95 million. The stock is currently trading 7.04% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.06% for SMA50 and it goes to -22.65% lower than SMA200.
Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE: KOS) currently have 471.82M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 96.08% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.63B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 2.31. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 7.63, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.45 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.47 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.25. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for KOS, volatility over the week remained 5.11% while standing at 4.95% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -36.45% while it is estimated to decrease by -16.79% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Jefferies on December 18, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $5.60 to it. Coverage by Mizuho stated Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on September 19, 2024, suggesting a price target of $5 for the stock. On November 20, 2023, Stifel Initiated their recommendations, while on October 17, 2023, Bernstein Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $9. Stock get a Buy rating from BofA Securities on September 27, 2023.
