NYSE:KRA - Kraton Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Kraton Corp (NYSE:KRA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 24th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.58 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.09 by $0.49. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $495.28 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $539.35 million. Kraton had a return on equity of 17.62% and a net margin of 5.92%. The business's revenue was down 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.88 EPS. View Kraton's Earnings History.

Kraton is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Kraton.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Kraton's stock. Their predictions range from $22.00 to $33.00. On average, they expect Kraton's stock price to reach $27.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 19.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Kraton.

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

Headlines about KRA stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing 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 daily sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the specialty chemicals company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Kraton.

Kraton saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 750,000 shares, an increase of 12.4% from the July 31st total of 667,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 202,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.4% of the company's stock are sold short. View Kraton's Current Options Chain.

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Kraton's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (14.72%), Vanguard Group Inc. (11.13%), Invesco Ltd. (2.64%), Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc. (2.58%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.25%) and Northern Trust Corp (2.13%). Company insiders that own Kraton stock include Barry J Goldstein, Chris H Russell, Holger R Jung, James Leo Simmons, Jose Fernando Cherubini Haddad, Kevin Michael Fogarty, Marcello C Boldrini, 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 Marshall Wace LLP, Foundry Partners LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Man Group plc, Eagle Boston Investment Management Inc., Citadel Advisors LLC, Uniplan Investment Counsel Inc. and Hancock Whitney Corp. Company insiders that have sold Kraton company stock in the last year include Holger R Jung, Jose Fernando Cherubini Haddad, Kevin Michael Fogarty and Stephen E Tremblay. View Insider Buying and Selling for Kraton.

KRA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Invesco Ltd., Morgan Stanley, Vanguard Group Inc., Wilen Investment Management CORP., BlackRock Inc. and Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc.. 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 $34.16.

Kraton has a market capitalization of $1.08 billion 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]