Kirby Corp (NYSE:KEX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 572.57K but it saw 872965 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 6.21B USD, the company’s current market price of $110.74 came falling about -0.14 while comparing to the previous closing price of $110.89. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $132.21 and as low as $83.94.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Wolfe Research which initiated the stock as “Outperform” in its note to investors issued on April 22, 2024, recommending a price target of $126 for it. BTIG Research upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on January 28, 2022 while assigning a price target of $80. Stifel issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $64 and $65.
Over the week, KEX’s stock price is moving 0.54% up while it is 15.62% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.67% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -8.62%.
Currently, Kirby Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 56.37M with 0.72% of that held by the insiders while 101.76% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.41% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.95%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 21.96 while having a 14.41 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.97. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.88 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.92. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.96% on average.
