Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kaiser Aluminum in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" KALU shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KALU, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Kaiser Aluminum's stock. Their KALU share price targets range from $67.00 to $84.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $77.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.6%.
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Kaiser Aluminum's stock was trading at $71.19 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KALU stock has increased by 26.7% and is now trading at $90.17.
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Kaiser Aluminum saw a decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 351,600 shares, a decline of 36.2% from the March 15th total of 551,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 138,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 2.3% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Kaiser Aluminum will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Kaiser Aluminum Co. (NASDAQ:KALU) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 22nd. The industrial products company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.34) by $0.94. The industrial products company earned $722 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $716.01 million. Kaiser Aluminum had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.32% and a net margin of 1.53%. The firm's revenue was down 7.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted ($1.66) earnings per share.

Kaiser Aluminum announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 10th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 25th will be paid a dividend of $0.77 per share on Wednesday, May 15th. This represents a $3.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 24th.
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Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.40%. The dividend payout ratio is 105.48%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, KALU will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.67% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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1 employees have rated Kaiser Aluminum Chief Executive Officer Keith A. Harvey on Glassdoor.com. Keith A. Harvey has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Keith A. Harvey in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Kaiser Aluminum's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Tributary Capital Management LLC (1.69%), 180 Wealth Advisors LLC (0.01%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.01%) and GAMMA Investing LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred E Osborne Jr, Brant Weaver, Del L Miller, Jack A Hockema, Jack A Hockema, Jennifer Huey, Keith Harvey, Leo Wilfred Gerard, Neal E West, Neal E West and Ray Parkinson.
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