Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) price on Wednesday, April 30, fall -7.78% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.54.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $1.67, moving within a range at $1.52 and $1.61. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.94 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 3.90. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.33 and $1.38 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, KOS moved -32.46% over the past month.
Kosmos Energy Ltd’s market cap currently stands at around $736.14 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-23.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 319.16M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 307.88M and 338.6M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -23.85% 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 1.71B, representing a 1.83% jump 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 KOS 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.
1 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend KOS as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
KOS’s current price about -10.75% and -28.78% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 35.58, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.85% and 11.03% in the 30-day chart. Further, Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) has a beta value of 1.45, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.17. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $5.6, forecast between a low of $5.6 and high of $5.6. Looking at the price targets, the low is -263.64% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -263.64%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -263.64% jump to $5.6 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 8.96 over the past 10 days and 10.45 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 471.90 million shares.
The 4.23% of Kosmos Energy Ltd’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 93.81% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 46.64 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 3.83. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Kosmos Energy Ltd (KOS) stood at 1288.9999999999998 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 46.92 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -54.97% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the KOS stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
