NYSE:KN - Knowles Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Knowles Corp (NYSE:KN) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 24th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.38. The communications equipment provider earned $235.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $235.92 million. Knowles had a return on equity of 6.59% and a net margin of 12.81%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down .1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.34 earnings per share. View Knowles' Earnings History.

Knowles is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Knowles.

Knowles issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.37-0.43 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.40. The company issued revenue guidance of $225-250 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $237.46 million.

6 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Knowles' stock. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $23.00. On average, they expect Knowles' share price to reach $20.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Knowles.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Knowles in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Knowles.

Media headlines about KN stock have trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Knowles earned a news impact score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the communications equipment provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Knowles.

Knowles saw a decline in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,550,000 shares, a decline of 8.9% from the December 15th total of 6,090,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 727,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.6 days. Approximately 6.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Knowles' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Knowles include Sonos (SONO), Universal Electronics (UEIC), Arlo Technologies (ARLO), Technicolor (TCLRY), LRAD (GNSS), LRAD (LRAD), Koss (KOSS), The Guitammer (GTMM) and Provision (PVHO).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Knowles investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Micron Technology (MU), Alibaba Group (BABA), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Baidu (BIDU), Netflix (NFLX), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Himax Technologies (HIMX).

Knowles' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC (1.00%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.12%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Sciencast Management LP (0.05%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%) and We Are One Seven LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Knowles stock include Cheryl L Shavers, Christian Scherp, Daniel J Giesecke, Didier Hirsch, Jeffrey Niew, John S Anderson, Keith Barnes, Michael S Polacek, Raymond D Cabrera, Thomas G Jackson and Ye Jane Li. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Knowles.

KN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, We Are One Seven LLC, Diligent Investors LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Knowles company stock in the last year include Cheryl L Shavers, Christian Scherp, Daniel J Giesecke, Jeffrey Niew, John S Anderson, Raymond D Cabrera and Ye Jane Li. View Insider Buying and Selling for Knowles.

KN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sciencast Management LP, Fruth Investment Management and Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC. Company insiders that have bought Knowles stock in the last two years include Didier Hirsch, Jeffrey Niew and Michael S Polacek. View Insider Buying and Selling for Knowles.

Shares of KN 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.64.

Knowles has a market capitalization of $1.89 billion and generates $826.90 million in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $67.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.80 on an earnings per share basis. Knowles employs 8,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Knowles.

The official website for Knowles is http://www.knowles.com/.

Knowles' mailing address is 1511 MAPLEWOOD DRIVE, ITASCA IL, 60143. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at 630-250-5100 or via email at [email protected]