Kellanova Co (K) is expecting 0.84% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

A new trading day began on Friday, with Kellanova Co (NYSE: K) stock price up 0.17% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $81.15. K’s price has ranged from $51.02 to $81.34 over the past 52 weeks.

Consumer Defensive Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -0.49% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 18.12%. With a float of $292.53 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $340.59 million.

The firm has a total of 23000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 35.01%, operating margin of 13.2%, and the pretax margin is 10.13%.

Kellanova Co (K) Insider Activity

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Packaged Foods Industry. The insider ownership of Kellanova Co is 15.14%, while institutional ownership is 68.01%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 29 ’24, was worth 9,305,618. In this transaction 10% Owner of this company sold 114,583 shares at a rate of $81.21, taking the stock ownership to the 49,222,442 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 21 ’24, when Company’s 10% Owner sold 114,583 for $80.99, making the entire transaction worth $9,280,261. This insider now owns 49,337,025 shares in total.

Kellanova Co (K) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 18.12% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.36% during the next five years compared to -6.41% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Kellanova Co (NYSE: K) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Kellanova Co’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.53. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.19. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 30.28.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.91, a number that is poised to hit 0.83 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.92 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Kellanova Co (K)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Kellanova Co, K], we can find that recorded value of 1.8 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 2.99 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 89.42%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.32.

During the past 100 days, Kellanova Co’s (K) raw stochastic average was set at 99.80%, which indicates a significant increase from 94.85% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 3.22% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 29.46% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $80.81, while its 200-day Moving Average is $67.01. Now, the first resistance to watch is $81.37. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $81.46. The third major resistance level sits at $81.59. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $81.15, it is likely to go to the next support level at $81.02. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $80.93.

Kellanova Co (NYSE: K) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 28.07 billion, the company has a total of 344,698K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 13,122 M while annual income is 951,000 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 3,233 M while its latest quarter income was 367,000 K.