Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price up by 3.08% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $2.34.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $2.27, falling within a range of $2.29 and $2.39. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.324 whereas the PE ratio was 5.93 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $6.58, and the low was $2.07. On the whole, KOS has fluctuated by -12.03% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Kosmos Energy Ltd currently standing at about $1.12 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-23.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.74B, with a low estimate of 307.88M and a high estimate of 361.5M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 334.69M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that KOS’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 16.03, with the price of KOS currently trading nearly 0.93% and -18.67% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 41.51, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.41% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.18%. Furthermore, Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS)’s beta value is 1.94, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.15.
A comparison of Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. KOS showed an intraday change of 3.08% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -59.72%%.
Data on historical trading for Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 10.59 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 9.15 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 471.90 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 4.23% of Kosmos Energy Ltd’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 94.90% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 46.92 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 4.18. According to the data, the short interest in Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stood at 1297.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 44.84 million. The stock has fallen by -31.58% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the KOS stock heading into the next quarter.
