Kennametal Inc (KMT) surge 10.35% in a week: will this be a lucky break through?

Zack King

As on Wednesday, Kennametal Inc (NYSE: KMT) got off with the flyer as it spiked 14.29% to $25.27, before settling in for the price of $22.11 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, KMT posted a 52-week range of $17.30-$32.18.

Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -9.40%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $76.01 million, simultaneously with a float of $74.94 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1.92 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $21.68, while the 200-day Moving Average is $21.89.

Kennametal Inc (KMT) Ownership Facts and Figures

Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Tools & Accessories industry. Kennametal Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.43%, in contrast to 102.19% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 11 ’25, this organization’s President and CEO bought 10,000 shares at the rate of 21.75, making the entire transaction reach 217,530 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 77,595. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 04 ’24, Company’s Vice President sold 20,470 for 28.24, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 578,052. This particular insider is now the holder of 39,581 in total.

Kennametal Inc (KMT) Earnings and Revenue Records

Kennametal Inc (NYSE: KMT) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Kennametal Inc (KMT). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.19. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $21.13, and its Beta score is 1.50. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.98. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 16.10.

In the same vein, KMT’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 1.20, a figure that is expected to reach 0.27 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 1.45 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Kennametal Inc (KMT)

Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Kennametal Inc, KMT], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.37 million was better the volume of 1.03 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 43.29% While, its Average True Range was 78.56.

Raw Stochastic average of Kennametal Inc (KMT) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 84.07%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 71.12% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 0.65 that was higher than 0.59 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.

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