NASDAQ:KHC - Kraft Heinz Stock Price, News & Analysis

Kraft Heinz trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "KHC."

Kraft Heinz announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 8th. Investors of record on Wednesday, August 21st will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Friday, September 13th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.33%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 20th. View Kraft Heinz's Dividend History.

Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ:KHC) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 8th. The company reported $0.78 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.03. The business had revenue of $5.96 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.07 billion. Kraft Heinz had a positive return on equity of 6.06% and a negative net margin of 43.40%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.90 EPS. View Kraft Heinz's Earnings History.

Kraft Heinz is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Kraft Heinz.

21 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Kraft Heinz's stock. Their forecasts range from $25.00 to $68.00. On average, they expect Kraft Heinz's stock price to reach $36.4475 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 44.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Kraft Heinz.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kraft Heinz in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 15 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Kraft Heinz.

Media headlines about KHC stock have trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Kraft Heinz earned a coverage optimism score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Kraft Heinz.

Kraft Heinz saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 20,389,200 shares, a drop of 13.7% from the June 30th total of 23,619,200 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 9,480,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's shares are short sold. View Kraft Heinz's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Kraft Heinz include Lamb Weston (LW), Lancaster Colony (LANC), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Armanino Foods Of Distinction (AMNF), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH) and Future Fintech Group (FTFT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Kraft Heinz investors own include AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Altria Group (MO), Verizon Communications (VZ), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Bank of America (BAC), Boeing (BA), Pfizer (PFE) and Intel (INTC).

Kraft Heinz's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (3.97%), BlackRock Inc. (3.18%), Invesco Ltd. (1.65%), Northern Trust Corp (0.64%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.44%) and Morgan Stanley (0.39%). Company insiders that own Kraft Heinz stock include Eduardo Pelleissone, Global Food Holdings Lp 3G and Mackey J Mcdonald. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Kraft Heinz.

KHC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Mackenzie Financial Corp, APG Asset Management N.V., Morgan Stanley, SG Americas Securities LLC, AMP Capital Investors Ltd, Westpac Banking Corp and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kraft Heinz.

KHC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Marshall Wace LLP, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Marshall Wace North America L.P., RWWM Inc., Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD and Worldquant Millennium Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kraft Heinz.

Shares of KHC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KHC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.27.

Kraft Heinz has a market capitalization of $30.83 billion and generates $26.26 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-10,192,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $3.53 on an earnings per share basis. Kraft Heinz employs 38,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Kraft Heinz.

The official website for Kraft Heinz is http://www.kraftheinzcompany.com/.

Kraft Heinz's mailing address is ONE PPG PLACE, PITTSBURGH PA, 15222. The company can be reached via phone at 412-456-5700 or via email at [email protected]