Knowles - KN Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Knowles in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy 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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4 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Knowles' shares. Their KN share price forecasts range from $17.00 to $25.50. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $20.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.5% from the stock's current price.
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Knowles' stock was trading at $16.42 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, KN shares have increased by 17.1% and is now trading at $19.23.
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Knowles saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,270,000 shares, an increase of 12.9% from the December 31st total of 2,010,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 894,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 2.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 9th 2023.
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Knowles will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 9th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 226-828-7578 with passcode "040100".

Knowles Co. (NYSE:KN) released its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.05. The communications equipment provider had revenue of $233 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $232.05 million. Knowles had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.98% and a negative net margin of 16.15%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 13.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.20 earnings per share.

Knowles issued an update on its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 3rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.31-$0.35 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.37. The company issued revenue guidance of $200.00 million-$220.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $210.44 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.

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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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.59%), Lapides Asset Management LLC (0.52%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.19%), Waypoint Capital Advisors LLC (0.09%), Ziegler Capital Management LLC (0.06%) and Yousif Capital Management LLC (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Air A Jr Bastarrica, Cheryl L Shavers, Daniel J Crowley, Daniel J Giesecke, Didier Hirsch, Donald Macleod, Jeffrey Niew, John S Anderson, Keith Barnes, Raymond D Cabrera, Ronald Steven Jankov and Ye Jane Li.
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One share of KN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.23.

Knowles (NYSE:KN) has a market capitalization of $1.75 billion and generates $868.10 million in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $150.40 million in net income (profit) each year or ($1.44) 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.