KinderCare Learning Companies Inc (NYSE:KLC) does about 1.19M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 696627 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.09B USD. Its current market price is $26.98, marking a decrease of -5.57% compared to the previous close of $28.57. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $29.89 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $24.60. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $41 and a low of $30.
KinderCare Learning Companies Inc (KLC) has the current price is -9.74% off the 52-week high compared with 9.67% distance from its 52-week low. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 5.22%.
The consensus objective for the share price is $34.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 20.65% over the period. The median price target is 22.91% away from the current levels at $35.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on November 04, 2024 when UBS initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $36. Morgan Stanley initiated its price target at $31.
The current price level is -4.64%, -4.64%, and -4.64% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the KLC price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Its price is 3.25% year-to-date.
Its 12-month price target is $35. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 20.65 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $30, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $41.
The company has a return on investment of 1.88% and return on equity of 22.43%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 53.52. Price to book ratio is 13.00 and price to sales ratio is 1.19.
