Kosmos Energy (LON:KOS) Stock Price Up 0.2%

Kosmos Energy Ltd. (LON:KOS)’s share price shot up 0.2% on Friday . The company traded as high as GBX 492 ($6.12) and last traded at GBX 483 ($6.01). 3 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 100% from the average session volume of 904 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 482 ($6.00).

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 610 ($7.59) target price on shares of Kosmos Energy in a report on Tuesday, February 20th.

Kosmos Energy Price Performance

The company has a market capitalization of £2.28 billion, a P/E ratio of 1,380.00, a P/E/G ratio of 0.10 and a beta of 2.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 233.35, a quick ratio of 0.61 and a current ratio of 0.76. The firm’s fifty day moving average is GBX 465.19 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 519.35.

Insider Buying and Selling at Kosmos Energy

In other Kosmos Energy news, insider Andrew G. Inglis sold 182,948 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 549 ($6.83), for a total value of £1,004,384.52 ($1,250,323.07). 2.78% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Kosmos Energy Company Profile

Kosmos Energy Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas along the Atlantic Margins in the United States. The company's primary assets include production projects located in offshore Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as gas projects located in offshore Mauritania and Senegal.