Knowles (KN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Knowles in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" KN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Knowles' shares. Their KN share price targets range from $15.00 to $15.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $15.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.0%.
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Knowles' stock was trading at $17.91 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KN shares have decreased by 3.7% and is now trading at $17.25.
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Knowles saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 1,740,000 shares, an increase of 10.1% from the April 15th total of 1,580,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 560,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.1 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 7th 2024.
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Knowles Co. (NYSE:KN) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.05. The communications equipment provider earned $233 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $232.05 million. Knowles had a net margin of 10.54% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.98%. The company's revenue was up 13.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.20 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Knowles (NYSE:KN) stock in their portfolio include Schwab Ariel ESG ETF (SAEF) and Ballast Small/Mid Cap ETF (MGMT).Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF (PSCT).

Knowles updated its second quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 1st. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.220-0.260 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.230. The company issued revenue guidance of $199.0 million-$209.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $205.5 million.

68 employees have rated Knowles Chief Executive Officer Jeff Niew on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Niew has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts Jeff Niew in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Knowles investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Alibaba Group (BABA), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Himax Technologies (HIMX), Netflix (NFLX) and Baidu (BIDU).

Knowles' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (13.36%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (2.50%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.83%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.83%), Sei Investments Co. (0.59%) and Nordea Investment Management AB (0.54%). Insiders that own company stock include Air A Jr Bastarrica, Cheryl L Shavers, Daniel J Crowley, Daniel J Giesecke, Jeffrey Niew, John S Anderson, Keith Barnes, Raymond D Cabrera and Ye Jane Li.
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Shares of KN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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