Black Knight Inc. (NYSE:BKI) saw an upside of 0.09% to $74.45 after adding $0.07 on Tuesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,215,259 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $74.75 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 3,222,450 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,307,920.
BKI’s 1-month performance is 5.15% or $4.13 on its low of $69.50 reached on 07/28/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $53.15 and high of $74.96, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 08/15/23. YTD, BKI has achieved 20.56% or $12.69 and has reached a new high 10 times. However, the current price is down -0.68% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
BKI stock has a beta of 0.49. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 7.67 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 4.15, with the price to cash flow ratio at 126.03.
Black Knight Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.40, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.40. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.86, while the total debt to equity was 0.88. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 43.79% while for the period ending June 29, Black Knight Inc.’s operating margin was 26.50%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $679.6 million against revenue of $1.55 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 27.12% to $55.3 million, while revenue of $141.8 million was -156.42% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected BKI to announce $0.49 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.44, representing a -10.20% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $143.8 million. BKI stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 2.98 billion, with total debt at $2.47 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $156.76 million.
Let’s look briefly at Black Knight Inc. (BKI) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 21 August was 78.78% to suggest the stock is trending Overbought, with historical volatility in this time period at 2.64%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $74.42, reflecting a -0.09% or -$0.07 change from its current price. BKI is currently trading +6.12% above its 20-day SMA, +32.03% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +32.64% and SMA200 by+22.49%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 88.82% and 89.30% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.60. The RSI (14) points at 79.17%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 88.67% with the period’s ATR at 0.78. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.11 and 0.38 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Black Knight Inc. (NYSE: BKI), Stephens downgraded it to an Equal-weight rating. They previously had an Overweight rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for BKI stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate BKI as a “sell,”, while 7 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 0 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is BKI’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $73.00 and a high of $75.00, with their median price target at $75.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Black Knight Inc. (BKI) stock is $74.60.
