Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kaiser Aluminum in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" KALU shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KALU, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Kaiser Aluminum's stock. Their KALU share price targets range from $67.00 to $84.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $77.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.0%.
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Kaiser Aluminum's stock was trading at $71.19 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, KALU stock has increased by 25.7% and is now trading at $89.49.
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Kaiser Aluminum saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 351,600 shares, a decrease of 36.2% from the March 15th total of 551,500 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 138,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.5 days. Approximately 2.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Kaiser Aluminum will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Kaiser Aluminum Co. (NASDAQ:KALU) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 22nd. The industrial products company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.34) by $0.94. The industrial products company had revenue of $722 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $716.01 million. Kaiser Aluminum had a net margin of 1.53% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.32%. Kaiser Aluminum's revenue was down 7.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted ($1.66) earnings per share.

Kaiser Aluminum announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 10th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 25th will be given a dividend of $0.77 per share on Wednesday, May 15th. This represents a $3.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, April 24th.
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Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) pays an annual dividend of $3.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.42%. The dividend payout ratio is 105.48%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, KALU will have a dividend payout ratio of 46.67% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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1 employees have rated Kaiser Aluminum Chief Executive Officer Keith A. Harvey on Glassdoor.com. Keith A. Harvey has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Keith A. Harvey in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Kaiser Aluminum investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Verizon Communications (VZ), International Business Machines (IBM), AT&T (T), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AbbVie (ABBV), Kohl's (KSS) and Pfizer (PFE).

Kaiser Aluminum's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Tributary Capital Management LLC (1.69%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), 180 Wealth Advisors LLC (0.01%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.01%) and GAMMA Investing LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred E Osborne Jr, Brant Weaver, Del L Miller, Jack A Hockema, Jack A Hockema, Jennifer Huey, Keith Harvey, Leo Wilfred Gerard, Neal E West, Neal E West and Ray Parkinson.
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