Knowles Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:KN)

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 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Knowles' stock. Their KN share price targets range from $15.00 to $15.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $15.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.5%.
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Knowles' stock was trading at $16.42 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, KN shares have decreased by 2.3% and is now trading at $16.04.
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Knowles saw a decrease in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,160,000 shares, a decrease of 10.8% from the October 15th total of 1,300,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 600,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.3% 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 Thursday, February 8th 2024.
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Knowles Co. (NYSE:KN) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 2nd. The communications equipment provider reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.03. The communications equipment provider earned $175.10 million during the quarter. Knowles had a negative net margin of 26.54% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.33%.

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 issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.27-0.31 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.34. The company issued revenue guidance of $210-220 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $194.95 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' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Ariel Investments LLC (5.03%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (2.53%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (2.23%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.13%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.03%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.27%). Insiders that own company stock include Air A Jr Bastarrica, Cheryl L Shavers, Daniel J Crowley, Daniel J Giesecke, 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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