Kirby Corporation is a marine shipping business based in the US. Kirby Corporation shares (KEX) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $104.53 – an increase of 9.14% over the previous week. Kirby Corporation employs 5,414 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $3.3 billion.
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| Latest market close | $104.53 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $83.94 - $132.21 |
| 50-day moving average | $99.13 |
| 200-day moving average | $112.97 |
| Wall St. target price | $127.17 |
| PE ratio | 19.5071 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $4.91 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $104.48 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-28) | 9.08% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 17.17% |
| 3 months (2025-02-06) | -2.49% |
| 6 months (2024-11-06) | -17.72% |
| 1 year (2024-05-06) | -6.71% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 44.91% |
| 3 years (2022-05-05) | 57.21% |
| 5 years (2020-05-06) | 117.39% |
Valuing Kirby Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Kirby Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Kirby Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 20x. In other words, Kirby Corporation shares trade at around 20x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Kirby Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.6273. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Kirby Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Kirby Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $647.4 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Kirby Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $3.3 billion |
|---|---|
| Gross profit TTM | $1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.4% |
| Return on equity TTM | 8.77% |
| Profit margin | 8.78% |
| Book value | $58.54 |
| Market Capitalization | $5.5 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Kirby Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Kirby Corporation's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 31 May 2006 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Kirby Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Kirby Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Kirby Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Kirby Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $83.94 up to $132.21. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Kirby Corporation's is 0.997. This would suggest that Kirby Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Kirby Corporation operates domestic tank barges in the United States. Its Marine Transportation segment provides marine transportation service and towing vessel transporting bulk liquid product, as well as operates tank barge throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, coastwise along three United States coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii. It also transports petrochemicals, black oils, refined petroleum products, and agricultural chemicals by tank barges; and operates offshore dry-bulk barges and tugboat units that are engaged in the offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargos in the United States coastal trade. It owns and operates 1,094 inland tank barges, approximately 281 inland towboats, 28 coastal tank barges, 24 coastal tugboats, 4 offshore dry-bulk cargo barges, 3 offshore tugboats, and a docking tugboat. Its Distribution and Services segment sells after-market service and genuine replacement parts for engines, transmissions, reduction gears, electric motors, drives, and controls, electrical distribution and control systems, energy storage battery systems, and related oilfield service equipment; rebuilds component parts or diesel engines, transmissions and reduction gears, and related equipment used in oilfield services, marine, power generation, on-highway, and other industrial applications; rents generators, industrial compressors, high capacity lift trucks, and refrigeration trailers; and manufactures and remanufactures oilfield service equipment, including pressure pumping units, as well as manufacturers electric power generation equipment, specialized electrical distribution and control equipment, and high capacity energy storage/battery systems. It serves to various companies, the United States government, and pleasure crafts. The company was formerly known as Kirby Exploration Company, Inc.
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