Knowles - KN Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Knowles in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 1 buy 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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4 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Knowles' shares. Their KN share price forecasts range from $17.00 to $25.50. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $20.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.9% from the stock's current price.
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Knowles' stock was trading at $23.35 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KN stock has decreased by 30.0% and is now trading at $16.35.
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Knowles saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,960,000 shares, an increase of 18.8% from the October 31st total of 1,650,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 963,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 8th 2023.
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Knowles Co. (NYSE:KN) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The communications equipment provider reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 negative net margin of 16.15% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.98%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 13.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.20 earnings per share.

Knowles updated 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 EPS 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.

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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (18.17%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.80%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.52%), State Street Corp (3.57%), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (3.10%) and UBS Group AG (2.10%). 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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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 $16.35.

Knowles (NYSE:KN) has a market capitalization of $1.49 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.