NYSE:KRA - Kraton Stock Price, Forecast & News

Kraton trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KRA."

Kraton Corp (NYSE:KRA) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.52 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.64 by $0.12. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $444.22 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $473.49 million. Kraton had a net margin of 4.89% and a return on equity of 14.96%. The business's revenue was down 15.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.02 earnings per share. View Kraton's Earnings History.

Kraton is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Kraton.

4 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Kraton's shares. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $33.00. On average, they expect Kraton's stock price to reach $27.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 41.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Kraton.

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

Press coverage about KRA stock has trended very positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Kraton earned a news impact score of 3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Kraton.

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Kraton's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Lapides Asset Management LLC (0.60%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.22%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.18%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%), Arizona State Retirement System (0.07%) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%). Company insiders that own Kraton stock include Chris H Russell, Holger R Jung, Jose Fernando Cherubini Haddad, Kevin Michael Fogarty, Marcello C Boldrini, Melinda Scissors Conley, Stephen E Tremblay and Vijay Mhetar. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Kraton.

KRA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Arizona State Retirement System, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, New York State Teachers Retirement System and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Kraton company stock in the last year include Chris H Russell, Holger R Jung, Jose Fernando Cherubini Haddad, Kevin Michael Fogarty and Melinda Scissors Conley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kraton.

KRA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Lapides Asset Management LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, SG Americas Securities LLC and 6 Meridian. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kraton.

Shares of KRA 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 KRA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $19.08.

Kraton has a market capitalization of $604.84 million and generates $2.01 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $67.01 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.16 on an earnings per share basis. Kraton employs 1,918 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Kraton.

The official website for Kraton is http://www.kraton.com/.

Kraton's mailing address is 15710 JOHN F. KENNEDY BLVD. SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX, 77032. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at 281-504-4700 or via email at [email protected]