KBR Inc (NYSE: KBR) is 2.47% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $51.60 and a high of $72.60 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The KBR stock was last observed hovering at around $59.80 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.44%.
Currently trading at $59.36, the stock is 2.40% and -1.94% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.93 million and changing -0.74% at the moment leaves the stock -7.51% off its SMA200. KBR registered 11.29% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -11.51%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $60.5352 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $64.18305.
The stock witnessed a 1.30% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -13.53%, and is 1.75% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.16% over the week and 2.60% over the month.
KBR Inc (KBR) has around 34000 employees, a market worth around $7.91B and $7.35B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 24.86 and Fwd P/E is 15.48. Profit margin for the company is 4.35%. Distance from 52-week low is 15.04% and -18.24% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.44%).
with sales reaching $2B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 11.90% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 9.66% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 15.85% in year-over-year returns.
KBR Inc (KBR) Top Institutional Holders
551.0 institutions hold shares in KBR Inc (KBR), with institutional investors hold 98.25% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 133.23M, and float is at 131.52M with Short Float at 1.77%. Institutions hold 97.15% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is FMR LLC with over 20.14 million shares valued at $1.29 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 14.9195% of the KBR Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 12.92 million shares valued at $828.92 million to account for 9.5731 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 12.12 million shares representing 8.9797% and valued at over $777.55 million, while INVESCO LTD. holds 3.3679 of the shares totaling 4.55 million with a market value of $291.63 million.
KBR Inc (KBR) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Ibrahim Jalal, the company’s Pres., Sustainable Tech Solns. SEC filings show that Ibrahim Jalal sold 35,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Aug 19 ’24 at a price of $66.56 per share for a total of $2.33 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.11 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 20 ’24, GALINDO SONIA (EVP, Gen. Counsel & Corp. Sec.) disposed off 4,660 shares at an average price of $66.00 for $0.31 million. The insider now directly holds 21,409 shares of KBR Inc (KBR).
