Knowles (KN) Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Knowles in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" KN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Knowles' shares. Their KN share price forecasts range from $17.00 to $18.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $17.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.4% from the stock's current price.
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Knowles' stock was trading at $16.42 at the start of the year. Since then, KN shares have increased by 6.2% and is now trading at $17.43.
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Knowles saw a decrease in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,090,000 shares, a decrease of 24.8% from the April 30th total of 2,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 613,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 1st 2023.
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Knowles Co. (NYSE:KN) issued its earnings results on Thursday, April, 27th. The communications equipment provider reported ($0.02) earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.03) by $0.01. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $144.30 million for the quarter. Knowles had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.55% and a negative net margin of 64.08%.

ETFs with the largest weight of Knowles (NYSE:KN) stock in their portfolio include Schwab Ariel ESG ETF (SAEF), Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF (PSCT), First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Small/Mid ETF (HSMV), Vanguard U.S. Minimum Volatility ETF (VFMV), iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL), iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (IJS), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (VIOV) and SPDR S&P 600 Small CapValue ETF (SLYV).

Knowles updated its second quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, April, 27th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.20-$0.24 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $0.21. The company issued revenue guidance of $165-$180 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $171.53 million.

68 employees have rated Knowles Chief Executive Officer Jeff Niew on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Niew has an approval rating of 93% among the company's employees. This puts Jeff Niew 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 Knowles investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Alibaba Group (BABA), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Himax Technologies (HIMX), Netflix (NFLX) and Baidu (BIDU).

Knowles trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KN."

Knowles' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (16.44%), Franklin Resources Inc. (7.48%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.34%), Simcoe Capital Management LLC (4.37%), State Street Corp (3.90%) and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (3.56%). Insiders that own company stock include Air A Jr Bastarrica, Cheryl L Shavers, Daniel J Crowley, Daniel J Giesecke, Donald Macleod, Jeffrey Niew, John S Anderson, Keith Barnes, Raymond D Cabrera and Ye Jane Li.
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Shares of KN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of KN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.43.

Knowles (NYSE:KN) has a market capitalization of $1.59 billion and generates $764.70 million in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $-430,100,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($4.95) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 7,000 workers across the globe.

Knowles' mailing address is 1511 MAPLEWOOD DRIVE, ITASCA IL, 60143. The official website for the company is www.knowles.com. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at (630) 250-5100, via email at mike.knapp@knowles.com, or via fax at 630-250-0575.