Kirby Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:KEX)

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kirby in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" KEX shares.
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4 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Kirby's shares. Their KEX share price targets range from $82.00 to $100.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $90.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 24.3% from the stock's current price.
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Kirby's stock was trading at $64.35 at the start of the year. Since then, KEX shares have increased by 13.2% and is now trading at $72.82.
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Kirby saw a decrease in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, a decrease of 6.3% from the October 15th total of 1,270,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 348,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.4 days. Approximately 2.0% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 30th 2024.
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Kirby Co. (NYSE:KEX) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 26th. The shipping company reported $1.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.02 by $0.03. The shipping company earned $764.77 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $795.43 million. Kirby had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.50% and a net margin of 6.56%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 2.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.65 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Kirby (NYSE:KEX) stock in their portfolio include SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN), Nuveen Small Cap Select ETF (NSCS), iShares U.S. Transportation ETF (IYT), Direxion Daily Transportation Bull 3X Shares (TPOR), Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF (DFSV) and FMC Excelsior Focus Equity ETF (FMCX).Pacer Industrials and Logistics ETF (SHPP).

23 employees have rated Kirby Chief Executive Officer David W. Grzebinski on Glassdoor.com. David W. Grzebinski has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts David W. Grzebinski in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Kirby investors own include Exxon Mobil (XOM), Brookdale Senior Living (BKD), Caterpillar (CAT), Netflix (NFLX), Boeing (BA), Delta Air Lines (DAL), General Electric (GE), Alphabet (GOOG), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Chevron (CVX).

Kirby's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Morgan Stanley (7.13%), FMR LLC (3.55%), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.99%), Jennison Associates LLC (2.31%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (1.20%) and Schroder Investment Management Group (0.95%). Insiders that own company stock include Amy D Husted, Barry E Davis, C Sean Day, Christian G O'neil, David W Grzebinski, Dorman Lynn Strahan, Eric S Holcomb, J H Pyne, Kim B Clarke, Kurt A Niemietz, Monte J Miller, Raj Kumar, Richard Ross Stewart, Rocky Dewbre, Ronald A Dragg, Scott P Miller and William M Waterman.
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