Evergy Inc (NASDAQ:EVRG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.21M but it saw 1284910 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 15.97B USD, the company’s current market price of $69.43 came rising about 0.61 while comparing to the previous closing price of $69.01. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $69.93 and as low as $49.55. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $68.52 while lowest mark touched by it was $69.52.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Evergy Inc (EVRG) gives us an average price of $67.20, while its current price level is -0.72% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 40.12% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $66.54 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $61.38. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.28% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.66%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 64.38 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Ladenburg Thalmann upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on January 02, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $59-$68.50. Mizuho issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $67.
Over the week, EVRG’s stock price is moving 3.12% up while it is 2.56% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 12.80% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 31.65%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-26, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.65 while estimate for next year EPS is 4.04. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.45B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $5.99B and seeing the company making $6.25B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.21B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Evergy Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 229.98M with 0.15% of that held by the insiders while 89.57% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.99% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.91%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 18.32 while having a 16.23 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.51. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.60 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.74. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.65% on average.
