Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS) price on Thursday, April 10, fall -11.86% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $6.84.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $7.76, moving within a range at $6.625 and $7.475. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.681 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 7.04. Turning to its 52-week performance, $28.25 and $6.04 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, KSS moved -20.56% over the past month.
Kohl’s Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $761.45 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-10. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.62, with its dividend yield at 23.76%. 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 3.01B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 2.94B and 3.16B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -5.25% 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 14.64B, representing a -4.84% 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 -15.29% and -33.34% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 38.11, while 7-day volatility ratio is 18.38% and 9.46% in the 30-day chart. Further, Kohl’s Corp (KSS) has a beta value of 1.61, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.84. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $9.5, forecast between a low of $8 and high of $11. Looking at the price targets, the low is -16.96% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -60.82%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -38.89% jump to $9.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Kohl’s Corp (NYSE:KSS), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 17.02 over the past 10 days and 11.16 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 111.00 million shares.
The 3.51% of Kohl’s Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 106.18% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 49.0 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 3.83. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Kohl’s Corp (KSS) stood at 6148.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 46.96 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -51.28% 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.
