KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF) saw an uptrend of 920443% in the recent trading with $644650.0 being its most recent. The current price level -30.04% lower than the highest price of $12.95 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 9.42% higher than the lowest price of $8.28 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on KREF appeared in (Business Wire) under the title “KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.25 Per Share of Common Stock” on Jun-10-25.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 5 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.40 for the stock.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc Earnings – What Happened With KREF
Coming around sales and income figures on KREF Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 67.82 million. KREF does have institutional investors; and they hold 61.34% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. was the top most holder in KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (NYSE:KREF) with an ownership of 10.2 million shares of the company or 14.6973 of the stake worth $92.34 million. The filing also reveals KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 14.4044 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $90.5 million for having 10.0 million shares in hand.
VANGUARD GROUP INC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 8.3391 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 252.0 institutions which have possession in KREF’s shares.
Key Metrics forKREF
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 3.93.
Technical Analysis of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (NYSE:KREF) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (KREF), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 699,185 shares and 100% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 637,890 shares. And to end, KREF’s 100-day average volume is 586,888 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
