NYSE:KMI - Kinder Morgan Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Kinder Morgan trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KMI."

Kinder Morgan declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 18th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, July 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Wednesday, August 15th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, July 30th. View Kinder Morgan's Dividend History.

Kinder Morgan declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Thursday, July 20th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 4.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) released its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 18th. The pipeline company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.19 by $0.02. The pipeline company had revenue of $3.43 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.42 billion. Kinder Morgan had a negative net margin of 1.82% and a positive return on equity of 5.07%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.14 earnings per share. View Kinder Morgan's Earnings History.

Kinder Morgan is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October, 19th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Kinder Morgan.

20 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Kinder Morgan's stock. Their predictions range from $16.00 to $26.00. On average, they expect Kinder Morgan's stock price to reach $21.0113 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 17.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Kinder Morgan.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kinder Morgan in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Kinder Morgan.

Kinder Morgan saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 46,170,287 shares, an increase of 37.2% from the July 13th total of 33,663,856 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,913,804 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.6 days. Approximately 2.4% of the company's shares are sold short. View Kinder Morgan's Current Options Chain.

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News stories about KMI stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Kinder Morgan earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the pipeline company an impact score of 45.68 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Kinder Morgan.

Kinder Morgan's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1.02%), Tortoise Capital Advisors L.L.C. (0.83%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.70%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.70%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.50%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.45%). Company insiders that own Kinder Morgan stock include Dax Sanders, Fayez Sarofim, Richard D Kinder, Thomas A Martin and William A Smith. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Kinder Morgan.

KMI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Nokota Management LP, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Glenmede Trust Co. NA, Stevens Capital Management LP, First Trust Advisors LP, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC and Cortland Advisers LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kinder Morgan.

KMI stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tortoise Capital Advisors L.L.C., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Millennium Management LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Eagle Global Advisors LLC, Confluence Investment Management LLC and Luminus Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Kinder Morgan stock in the last two years include Dax Sanders, Fayez Sarofim, Richard D Kinder, Thomas A Martin and William A Smith. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kinder Morgan.

Shares of KMI 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 KMI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.95.

Kinder Morgan has a market capitalization of $40.08 billion and generates $13.71 billion in revenue each year. The pipeline company earns $183 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.66 on an earnings per share basis. Kinder Morgan employs 10,897 workers across the globe.

Kinder Morgan's mailing address is 1001 LOUISIANA STREET SUITE 1000, HOUSTON TX, 77002. The pipeline company can be reached via phone at 713-369-9000 or via email at [email protected]