Kraton Corporation KRA
Apr 24, 2025, 3:47 PM EDT
52-week range unavailable
- Market cap
- 1.50B
- Revenue (ttm)
- 1.97B
- Profit margin
- 8.64%
- Shares out
- 32.23M
- Forward P/E
- 13.67
- Volume
- 970.38K
- Open
- 46.47
- Previous close
- 46.49
- Day's range
- 46.47 – 46.50
- Beta
- 2.09
- Analysts
- Hold
- Price target
- 46.50 (+0.0%)
- Earnings date
- Apr 27, 2022
2Y +0.81 (+1.77%)
Key statistics
- Enterprise value
- 2.40B
- PEG ratio
- -1.02
- Price / sales
- 0.76
- Price / book
- 1.88
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout ratio
- 0.00%
- Revenue growth
- 26.00%
- Free cash flow
- 117.27M
- Total cash
- 130.52M
- Total debt
- 986.01M
- Return on equity
- 23.46%
- Short % of float
- 7.63%
- 50-day average
- 46.28
- 200-day average
- 42.81
Analyst view
Consensus: hold
- Strong buy0
- Buy2
- Hold2
- Sell1
- Strong sell0
Next earnings
Apr 27, 2022
Expected Apr 27, 2022. Consensus EPS estimate 0.61.
Financials — quick view
Earnings
| Report date | Quarter ending | EPS estimate | EPS reported | Surprise | Surprise % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2022 | Mar 1, 2022 | 0.00 | — | — | — |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Dec 1, 2021 | 0.80 | — | — | — |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Sep 1, 2021 | 0.79 | — | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2021 | Jun 1, 2021 | 0.49 | — | — | — |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Mar 1, 2021 | 0.50 | — | — | — |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Dec 1, 2020 | 0.07 | — | — | — |
Upgrades / downgrades
| Date | Firm | Action | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2021 | UBS | up | Sell | Neutral |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Loop Capital | down | Buy | Hold |
| May 6, 2020 | UBS | main | — | Sell |
| May 1, 2020 | SunTrust Robinson Humphrey | main | — | Buy |
| Mar 25, 2020 | Stifel | main | — | Hold |
| Mar 2, 2020 | Stifel Nicolaus | main | — | Hold |
About Kraton Corporation
Kraton Corporation manufactures and sells styrenic block copolymers, specialty polymers, and bio-based products in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Polymer and Chemical. The Polymer segment offers performance products, including styrene-butadiene-styrene for paving and roofing application; styrene-isoprene-styrene for personal care application; ethylene-vinyl acetate, polyolefins, and metallocene polyolefins for adhesives application; and specialty polymers, such as hydrogenated styrenic block copolymer, isoprene rubber, and isoprene rubber latex for use in medical and personal care products, adhesives, tackifiers, paints, and coatings. The Chemical segment provides pine-based specialty products that include rosin-based tackifiers for packaging and pressure-sensitive adhesive applications; terpene-based tackifiers for bookbinding, hygiene, and pressure-sensitive adhesive applications; alpha-methyl-styrene (AMS) resins; and hot melt polyamides for flexible packaging, industrial and road making applications. This segment also provides tall oil fatty acids, tall oil rosin, distilled tall oil, tall oil pitch, and rosin-based binders for the thermoplastic pavement marking submarket, as well as produces insoluble maleic-based tackifiers. The Chemical segment also offers terpene-based tread enhancement resins and AMS-based tread enhancement additives; and dimer acids and terpene fractions for fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, mining fluids, coatings, metalworking fluids, and lubricants. The company sells its products through various channels, including direct sales force, marketing representatives, and distributors under the Kraton brand. The company was formerly known as Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. and changed its name to Kraton Corporation in September 2016. Kraton Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Houston, Texas.
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
- Country
- United States
- Website
- kraton.com
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Insider holders
| Insider | Relation | Latest transaction | Date | Shares held |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATANASOV ATANAS H | Chief Financial Officer | Conversion of Exercise of derivative security | Mar 14, 2022 | 2,576 |
| BOLDRINI MARCELLO C | Officer | Stock Award(Grant) | Mar 3, 2022 | 65,610 |
| CATALANO ANNA CHENG | Director | Stock Award(Grant) | Feb 27, 2022 | 40,331 |
| CONLEY MELINDA SCISSORS | Officer | Stock Award(Grant) | Mar 3, 2022 | 64,890 |
| FOGARTY KEVIN MICHAEL | Chief Executive Officer | Stock Award(Grant) | Mar 3, 2022 | 668,611 |
| JUNG HOLGER R | President | Stock Award(Grant) | Mar 3, 2022 | 108,616 |
Institution ownership
| Holder | % held | Shares | Value | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackrock Inc. | 15.56% | 5,014,933 | 232.29M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) | 10.62% | 3,423,375 | 158.57M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 7.21% | 2,324,624 | 107.68M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| Magnetar Financial LLC | 6.39% | 2,059,548 | 95.40M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| Millennium Management LLC | 3.89% | 1,252,180 | 58.00M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| Versor Investments, LP | 3.70% | 1,191,689 | 55.20M | Dec 30, 2021 |
Fund ownership
| Holder | % held | Shares | Value | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF | 7.00% | 2,255,938 | 104.50M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund | 2.70% | 871,582 | 40.37M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Series | 2.51% | 807,517 | 36.86M | Oct 30, 2021 |
| Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund | 2.38% | 768,597 | 35.60M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| iShares Russell 2000 ETF | 2.28% | 736,213 | 34.10M | Dec 30, 2021 |
| iShares S&P Smallcap 600 Value ETF | 1.65% | 530,823 | 24.59M | Dec 30, 2021 |