Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.050-1.300 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 1.440. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.0 billion-$2.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.0 billion. Kennametal also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 0.200-0.300 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research analysts recently weighed in on the company. Loop Capital raised their price objective on Kennametal from $24.00 to $26.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 19th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on Kennametal from $24.50 to $28.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 17th. StockNews.com raised Kennametal from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, January 27th. Bank of America lowered Kennametal from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating and set a $26.00 target price on the stock. in a report on Friday, October 18th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group lowered Kennametal from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and lowered their target price for the company from $40.00 to $32.00 in a report on Friday, December 6th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $27.67.

Kennametal Stock Down 2.6 %

KMT opened at $22.07 on Friday. Kennametal has a fifty-two week low of $20.50 and a fifty-two week high of $32.18. The company has a market capitalization of $1.72 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.18, a P/E/G ratio of 2.32 and a beta of 1.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45, a current ratio of 2.52 and a quick ratio of 1.16. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $24.96 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $25.61.

Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 5th. The industrial products company reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.27 by ($0.02). Kennametal had a return on equity of 8.35% and a net margin of 4.98%. On average, analysts anticipate that Kennametal will post 1.43 EPS for the current year.

Kennametal Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, February 25th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 11th will be given a $0.20 dividend. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.62%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 11th. Kennametal’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 62.50%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Kennametal news, VP Franklin Cardenas sold 20,470 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $28.24, for a total transaction of $578,072.80. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 39,581 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,117,767.44. This represents a 34.09 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, VP John Wayne Witt sold 1,765 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, November 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $29.35, for a total transaction of $51,802.75. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 1,642 shares in the company, valued at $48,192.70. This represents a 51.81 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Company insiders own 1.41% of the company’s stock.

Kennametal Company Profile

Kennametal Inc engages in development and application of tungsten carbides, ceramics, and super-hard materials and solutions for use in metal cutting and extreme wear applications to enable customers work against corrosion and high temperatures conditions worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Metal Cutting and Infrastructure.