Is Buying Stock In Kellogg Company (K) A Good Move Today?

Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) saw a downside of -0.61% to close Tuesday at $60.75 after subtracting -$0.37 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,047,600 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $63.23 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 2,408,035 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,429,224.

K’s 1-month performance is -10.46% or -$7.03 on its low of $60.71 reached on 08/22/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $60.76 and high of $77.17, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/09/23. YTD, K has lost -14.72% or -$10.49 and has reached a new high 4 times. However, the current price is down -21.28% from the 52-week high price.

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Insider Transactions

K stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Aug 21.KELLOGG W K FOUNDATION TRUST (10% Owner) most recently sold 100,000 shares at $61.10 per share on Aug 21. This transaction cost the insider $6,109,550. 10% Owner, KELLOGG W K FOUNDATION TRUST, sold 100,000 shares at a price of $63.78 on Aug 10. Then, on Jul 20, 10% Owner KELLOGG W K FOUNDATION TRUST sold 100,000 shares at a price of $67.55 per share. This transaction amounted to $6,754,550.

Valuation Metrics

K stock has a beta of 0.43. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.30 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 5.26, with the price to cash flow ratio at 22.21.

Kellogg Company’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.40, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.70. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 1.28, while the total debt to equity was 1.70.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 30.60%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $4.62 billion against revenue of $15.31 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 8.68% to $357.0 million, while revenue of $298.0 million was 16.53% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected K to announce $1.11 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $1.25, representing a 12.60% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $619.0 million. K stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 13.88 billion, with total debt at $7.44 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $342.35 million.

Let’s look briefly at Kellogg Company (K) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 18.54% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 12.07%.

The stock’s 5-day moving average is $61.44, reflecting a -3.77% or -$2.38 change from its current price. K is currently trading -10.61% above its 20-day SMA, -8.63% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -9.54% and SMA200 by-19.88%.

Stochastic %K and %D was 4.22% and 3.72% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.92. The RSI (14) points at 23.54%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 0.56% with the period’s ATR at 0.95. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.19 and -1.96 on the 14-day charts.

Analyst Ratings

In the most recent analyst report for Kellogg Company (NYSE: K), Goldman upgraded it to a Buy rating. They previously had a Neutral rating on the stock.

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