Koninklijke KPN (OTCMKTS:KKPNF) Shares Gap Down – Should You Sell?

Koninklijke KPN NV (OTCMKTS:KKPNF) gapped down before the market opened on Tuesday . The stock had previously closed at $5.51, but opened at $5.2750. Koninklijke KPN shares last traded at $5.2750, with a volume of 137 shares traded.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Zacks Research upgraded shares of Koninklijke KPN from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, December 16th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy”.

Koninklijke KPN Stock Performance

The stock has a market cap of $21.08 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.58 and a beta of 0.24. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $5.26 and its two-hundred day moving average is $4.86. The company has a current ratio of 0.72, a quick ratio of 0.70 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.82.

Koninklijke KPN (OTCMKTS:KKPNF) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 28th. The company reported $0.07 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.08 by ($0.01). The firm had revenue of $1.73 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.70 billion. Koninklijke KPN had a return on equity of 24.84% and a net margin of 14.72%. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Koninklijke KPN NV will post 0.26 earnings per share for the current year.

Koninklijke KPN Company Profile

Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Royal KPN) is a Dutch telecommunications and ICT services company headquartered in The Hague. The group traces its origins to the Dutch national postal and telecommunications service and evolved into a privatized commercial operator. KPN is primarily listed on Euronext Amsterdam and its American depositary receipts trade over the counter under the symbol KKPNF.

KPN’s core activities cover a full range of telecommunications and digital infrastructure services. For consumer markets it offers fixed-line and mobile voice services, broadband internet, television and bundled connectivity packages.