KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (NYSE: KREF) is -3.92% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $8.28 and a high of $12.95 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 KREF stock was last observed hovering at around $9.02 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 635.63%.
Currently trading at $644.65K, the stock is -1.04% and -1.18% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.92 million and changing 920443% at the moment leaves the stock -15.00% off its SMA200. KREF registered -10.30% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -13.38%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $9.1682 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $10.65935.
The stock witnessed a -0.77% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -19.18%, and is -2.05% 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 1.99% over the week and 1.86% over the month.
Current P/E ratio is 56.27 and Fwd P/E is 9.76. Profit margin for the company is 2.04%. Distance from 52-week low is 9.42% and -30.04% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.18%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 171.27% this year
252.0 institutions hold shares in KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF), with institutional investors hold 77.90% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 67.82M, and float is at 56.18M with Short Float at 5.49%. Institutions hold 76.31% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 10.2 million shares valued at $92.34 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.6973 of the KREF Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. with 10.0 million shares valued at $90.5 million to account for 14.4044 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 5.79 million shares representing 8.3391 and valued at over $52.39 million, while NAN SHAN LIFE INSURANCE CO., LTD. holds 4.4358 of the shares totaling 3.08 million with a market value of $27.87 million.
