The trading price of Kyndryl Holdings Inc (NYSE:KD) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $34.73, 0.58% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $34.56 and $34.98. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $36.43 and a 52-week low of $19.19. Over the past month, the stock has gained 0.06% in value.
Kyndryl Holdings Inc, whose market valuation is $8.07 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in January. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 0.43 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 1.16 for current year and 2.08 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 3.82B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 3.8B and highs of 3.85B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 15.25B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest KD has a 75% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned KD a recommendation rating is 3. Out of them, 0 rate it a Hold, while 3 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Kyndryl Holdings Inc (KD) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that KD’s price is currently -0.48% off the SMA20 and 13.87% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 59.97, and weekly volatility stands at 1.97%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 2.48%. Kyndryl Holdings Inc (NYSE:KD)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.94, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.88. With analysts defining $26-$33 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $30 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 25.14% off the estimated low and 4.98% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if KD’s share price rises to $30, which is the median consensus price. At that level, KD’s share price would be 13.62% above current price.
To see how Kyndryl Holdings Inc stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: KD stock’s performance was 0.58% at last check in today’s session, and 67.13% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Kyndryl Holdings Inc (NYSE:KD) indicates that the 3-month average is 1.98 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 1.66.
Currently, records show that 232.20 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 1.46% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 75.43%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-12-13, stood at 7.93 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.12 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 436.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in December were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 9.15 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 67.13% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
