Kraft Heinz Co (KHC) saw downtrend of -1.47% in the recent trading with $26.13 being its most recent. The current price level -28.04% lower than the highest price of $36.31 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 2.71% higher than the lowest price of $25.44 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on KHC appeared in (Business Wire) under the title “Sipping with Style: Capri Sun and Christian Siriano Introduce the Fan-Fueled Pouch Purse”.
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 Moderate Buy by 14 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 2.87 for the stock.
Kraft Heinz Co Earnings – What Happened With KHC
Coming around sales and income figures on KHC 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. Kraft Heinz Co (KHC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 1.16% for net revenue.
KHC – Kraft Heinz Co Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ:KHC)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.74 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Kraft Heinz Co (KHC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 1.16% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.75.
Kraft Heinz Co – 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 1.18 billion. KHC does have institutional investors; and they hold 84.39% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC was the top most holder in Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ:KHC) with an ownership of 325.63 million shares of the company or 26.8676 of the stake worth $10.49 billion. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 7.6212 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $2.98 billion for having 92.37 million shares in hand.
VANGUARD GROUP INC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 5.8782 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1538.0 institutions which have possession in KHC’s shares.
Key Metrics for KHC
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, Kraft Heinz Co has a debt to equity ratio of 0.51.
