Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) price on current trading day, rose 0.17% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $15.42.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $15.39, moving within a range at $15.38 and $15.63. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.971 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 6.95. Turning to its 52-week performance, $29.60 and $14.22 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, KSS moved -13.19% over the past month.
Kohl’s Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $1.71 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in January. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.00, with its dividend yield at 12.97%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 5.25B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 5.1B and 5.44B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -8.12% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 15.73B, representing a -5.14% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that KSS is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
13 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 6 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 4 recommend KSS as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 3 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
KSS’s current price about -7.51% and -15.73% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 38.99, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.64% and 4.84% in the 30-day chart. Further, Kohl’s Corp (KSS) has a beta value of 1.90, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.86. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $22, forecast between a low of $19 and high of $25. Looking at the price targets, the low is -23.22% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -62.13%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -42.67% jump to $22 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 17.06 over the past 10 days and 8.20 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 111.24 million shares.
The 1.59% of Kohl’s Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 125.87% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 35.5 million on 2024-10-31, giving us a short ratio of 6.47. The data shows that as of 2024-10-31 short interest in Kohl’s Corp (KSS) stood at 4456.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 37.54 million registered in 2024-09-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -46.25% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the KSS stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.