Knowles (KN) Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street 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 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 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Knowles' shares. Their KN share price forecasts range from $16.00 to $18.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $17.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.5% 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 decreased by 11.1% and is now trading at $14.59.
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Knowles saw a drop in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,820,000 shares, a drop of 11.7% from the July 31st total of 2,060,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 605,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.0 days. Currently, 2.0% 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 Thursday, October 26th 2023.
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Knowles Co. (NYSE:KN) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August, 2nd. The communications equipment provider reported $0.12 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.16 by $0.04. The communications equipment provider earned $173 million during the quarter. Knowles had a negative net margin of 28.43% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.57%.

ETFs with the largest weight of Knowles (NYSE:KN) stock in their portfolio include Schwab Ariel ESG ETF (SAEF), Ballast Small/Mid Cap ETF (MGMT), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (CAFG) and Invesco S&P SmallCap Information Technology ETF (PSCT).JPMorgan Active Small Cap Value ETF (JPSV).

Knowles updated its third quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.26-$0.30 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.30. The company issued revenue guidance of $170.00 million-$180.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $192.37 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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (16.19%), Franklin Resources Inc. (9.39%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.31%), Ariel Investments LLC (4.98%), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (4.02%) and State Street Corp (3.79%). 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 $14.59.

Knowles (NYSE:KN) has a market capitalization of $1.33 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 ($2.16) 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.