Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Korea Electric Power ADR (KEP)

Korea Electric Power ADR (NYSE:KEP) does about 376.60K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1356954 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 16.19B USD. Its current market price is $12.61, marking an increase of 21.48% compared to the previous close of $10.38. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $11.44 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $6.68.

The consensus objective for the share price is $12.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -5.08% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 2 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

The current price level is 15.95%, 26.36%, and 53.05% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the KEP price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Korea Electric Power ADR (KEP) stock is up 21.13% over the week and 16.44% over the past month. Its price is 71.80% year-to-date and 83.28% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $27.02T, which analysts say will come at $96.62T for the current fiscal year and next year at $98.59T. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $21.74T.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -5.08 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 1.28B with insiders holding 0.00% of the shares and institutional holders owning 1.47% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 4.09% and return on equity of 13.42%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 4.33 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 2.69. The beta has a value of 0.84. Price to book ratio is 0.57 and price to sales ratio is 0.24.

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