Korea Electric Power ADR (NYSE: KEP) is 97.98% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $6.68 and a high of $12.68 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 KEP stock was last observed hovering at around $12.61 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 383.96%.
Currently trading at $396.57K, the stock is 24.64% and 35.78% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.88 million and changing 1879075% at the moment leaves the stock 65.74% off its SMA200. KEP registered 99.13% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 90.01%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $10.09 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $8.266.
The stock witnessed a 19.96% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 77.46%, and is 29.37% 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 10.09% over the week and 5.82% over the month.
Current P/E ratio is 4.70 and Fwd P/E is 2.90. Profit margin for the company is 5.53%. Distance from 52-week low is 105.09% and 8.04% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (4.09%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 119.39% this year
129.0 institutions hold shares in Korea Electric Power ADR (KEP), with institutional investors hold 1.47% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.28B, and float is at 1.28B with Short Float at 0.07%. Institutions hold 1.47% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is MORGAN STANLEY with over 5.98 million shares valued at $42.41 million. The investor’s holdings represent 0.9281 of the KEP Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is DONALD SMITH & CO., INC. with 1.5 million shares valued at $10.66 million to account for 0.2342 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are KOPERNIK GLOBAL INVESTORS, LLC which holds 1.48 million shares representing 0.2312 and valued at over $10.52 million, while VANGUARD GROUP INC holds 0.2163 of the shares totaling 1.39 million with a market value of $9.85 million.
