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

4 Wall Street 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 analysts is that investors should "buy" KEX shares.
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4 equities research analysts 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 share price to reach $90.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.7% from the stock's current price.
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Kirby's stock was trading at $64.35 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KEX shares have increased by 13.7% and is now trading at $73.17.
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Kirby saw a drop in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, a drop of 6.3% from the October 15th total of 1,270,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 348,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 2.0% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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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) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The shipping company reported $1.05 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.02 by $0.03. The shipping company earned $764.77 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $795.43 million. Kirby had a net margin of 6.56% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.50%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 2.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.65 earnings per share.

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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