Currently, there are 67.82M common shares owned by the public and among those 56.18M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -5.78% and -19.04% over the past three months. KREF shares are trading -11.19% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -7.53% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $8.28 and touched a high of $12.95 over the same period. KREF has an average intraday trading volume of 568.34K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -2.85%, -7.63%, and -17.75% respectively.
Institutional ownership of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (NYSE: KREF) shares accounts for 61.20% of the company’s 67.82M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $610.07M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.97. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 55.71, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.16. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 3.93. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.77% over the week and 1.85% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 171.27%, and 27.65% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the KREF, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Keefe Bruyette stated their Mkt Perform rating for the stock in a research note on April 07, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $10.75. Keefe Bruyette coverage for the KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF) stock in a research note released on September 05, 2024 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $13. BTIG Research was of a view on July 19, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while BTIG Research gave the stock Buy rating on April 25, 2023, issuing a price target of $12. JMP Securities on their part issued Mkt Outperform rating on April 28, 2021.
