KBR Inc (NYSE: KBR) is -25.01% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $43.89 and a high of $72.60 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The KBR stock was last observed hovering at around $47.82 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -46.39%.
Currently trading at $1.43M, the stock is -7.00% and -8.50% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.78 million and changing 1776873% at the moment leaves the stock -15.86% off its SMA200. KBR registered -17.04% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -16.21%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $52.5222 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $57.1178.
The stock witnessed a -5.99% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -6.55%, and is -9.29% down 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 3.79% over the week and 2.11% over the month.
KBR Inc (KBR) has around 38000 employees, a market worth around $6.24B and $7.98B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 16.06 and Fwd P/E is 11.42. Profit margin for the company is 4.99%. Distance from 52-week low is 9.50% and -33.80% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.17%).
with sales reaching $2.09B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 14.79% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 11.26% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 12.51% in year-over-year returns.
527.0 institutions hold shares in KBR Inc (KBR), with institutional investors hold 101.32% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 129.74M, and float is at 127.90M with Short Float at 3.26%. Institutions hold 100.16% 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 15.0308 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 9.6445 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 12.12 million shares representing 9.0468 and valued at over $777.55 million, while INVESCO LTD. holds 3.3931 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 Bradie Stuart, the company’s President and CEO. SEC filings show that Bradie Stuart sold 20,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 18 ’25 at a price of $52.81 per share for a total of $1.06 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.8 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 14 ’25, Conlon Gregory Sean (Chief Digital & Development) disposed off 19,000 shares at an average price of $50.59 for $0.96 million. The insider now directly holds 63,533 shares of KBR Inc (KBR).
