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KTB

Kontoor Brands Inc. Common Stock

Industrials · ·

$78.80

$4.85 (-5.8%)

Market Cap

$4.36B

Day Range

$78.70 - $83.74

52-Week Range

$56.19 - $88.96

Beta

Next Earnings

12.08.2026

KTB is a stock from the Industrials sectorManufacturing, aerospace, defense, and infrastructure — closely tied to capital-investment cycles and economic growth.

🏢 Similar Stocks in the Same Sector

+47.5% (1Y)

Investor Score
61/ 100C+
🟡 Moderate

This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer

📈59CTechnical
💰67B-Fundamental
🚀54C-Growth
💎62C+Valuation
📰68B-News
🏦58CQuality
⚠️50C-Risk

Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%

🔍 Cross-Check

Overall Score

🟡 Mixed

Technical Trend

🟡 Mixed

Insiders

🔴 Bearish

✅ Why is the score relatively high?

  • 🟢 Estimated fair value: $115.83 vs. price $78.80 (+47.0%)
  • 🟢 Revenue growth (last year): 20.9%
  • 🟢 Free cash flow growth: 24.4%
  • 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
  • 🟢 Return on equity (ROE): 40.3% — strong

⚠️ What's concerning?

  • 🔴 Earnings per share (EPS) growth: -7.1%
  • 🔴 Net income growth: -7.5%
  • 🔴 Debt/equity: 2.02
  • 🔴 MACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
  • 🔴 Price is below the SAR point — downtrend

🚦 Quality & Risk Checks

🟢 Operating margin stability🟡 Conservative leverage🟡 Daily volatility (ATR)🔴 Leverage risk🟢 Liquidity risk

📰 News Trend

Based on real financial news (Finnhub)
🟡 Mixed

Everyone's writing about Kontoor Brands Inc. Common Stock. News trend score: 68. Reason: 6 of the last 17 articles are positive, versus 3 negative.

News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer

📈 Technical Analysis

Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.

🟡 Indicators are mixed — no clear bias (5 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 neutral)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 50Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 200Price is above the 200-day average
  • 🔴MACDMACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
  • 🟢RSIRSI 50.5 — healthy positive momentum
  • 🟡Stochastic%K 20.3 — neutral range
  • 🟡ADX (trend strength)ADX 16.2 — weak trend/choppy
  • 🟢Relative strength vs. S&P 500+12.0% over the last 3 months relative to the index
  • 🔴Bollinger BandsPrice is in the lower third of the Bollinger Bands (29%B) — weakness (chance of a recovery)
  • 🟢ROC (rate of change)ROC 12 days: 0.3%
  • 🔴Parabolic SARPrice is below the SAR point — downtrend
  • 🔴CMF (money flow)CMF 20 days: -0.17

Wyckoff Method Analysis

A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.

Markup

The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.

Medium confidence

Evidence Behind This Read

  • 🟢Rising price trendA 17.2% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.

The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.

🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)

Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.

1️⃣ Market Structure

🟢 Uptrend

The price is above the 200-day average — per the market-structure method, this environment mainly favors looking for buying (Long) opportunities.

2️⃣ Value Zone

🟡 Price far from value zone

The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.

3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)

Method formula: Stop-loss = support minusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.

Entry

$83.65

Stop-Loss

$63.49

Risk per Share

$20.16

Direction

Long

Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)

1:2 R

$123.96

1:3 R

$144.12

1:5 R

$184.43

💰 Position Size Calculator

A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.

Suggested Position Size

4 sh.

💰 Financial Health

Profitability

Gross Margin

45.2%

Operating Margin

10.7%

Net Margin

7.2%

EBITDA Margin

12.2%

Efficiency

ROE

40.3%

ROA

8.8%

ROIC

EPS

$4.10

Balance Sheet

Cash

$108.44M

Total Debt

$1.14B

Current Ratio

1.82

Debt/Equity

2.02

Conclusions

  • 🟢Gross marginGross margin: 45.2% — strong
  • 🟡Operating marginOperating margin: 10.7% — reasonable
  • 🟡Net marginNet margin: 7.2% — reasonable
  • 🟢Return on equity (ROE)Return on equity (ROE): 40.3% — strong
  • 🟡Return on assets (ROA)Return on assets (ROA): 8.8% — reasonable
  • 🟢Current ratio (liquidity)Current ratio: 1.82
  • 🔴Debt-to-equityDebt/equity: 2.02

🚀 Growth

Revenue

Earnings per Share (EPS)

Net Income

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Revenue growth (last year)Revenue growth (last year): 20.9%
  • 🔴Earnings per share (EPS) growthEarnings per share (EPS) growth: -7.1%
  • 🟢Free cash flow growthFree cash flow growth: 24.4%
  • 🔴Net income growthNet income growth: -7.5%

💵 Dividends

Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.

Annual Dividend per Share

Ex-Dividend DateAmount per Share
8.6.2026$0.530
10.3.2026$0.530
8.12.2025$0.530
9.9.2025$0.520
10.6.2025$0.520
10.3.2025$0.520
9.12.2024$0.520
10.9.2024$0.500
10.6.2024$0.500
7.3.2024$0.500
7.12.2023$0.500
7.9.2023$0.480

💎 Fair Value (Valuation)

Current Price

$78.80

Estimated Fair Value (DCF)

$115.83

Gap

+47.0%

🟢 Appears cheap relative to estimated value

Show all model (DCF) assumptions →

Year 1 Growth Rate

6.7%

Discount Rate (WACC)

9.0%

Terminal Growth Rate

2.5%

Projection Years

5

YearGrowth RateProjected FCFPresent Value
16.7%$463.73M$425.44M
25.6%$489.80M$412.26M
34.6%$512.24M$395.55M
43.5%$530.38M$375.73M
52.5%$543.64M$353.33M

Base FCF (last actual year)

$434.76M

Terminal Value

$8.57B

Present Value of Terminal Value

$5.57B

Enterprise Value

$7.53B

Net Debt

$1.03B

Equity Value

$6.50B

*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.

Book Value per Share

$10.07

Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)

-$7.43

Conclusions

  • 🟢DCF Fair ValueEstimated fair value: $115.83 vs. price $78.80 (+47.0%)
  • 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV)NAV per share: -$7.43
  • 🟡P/EP/E: 20.7

🕴️ Insider Trading

Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 1 sales out of the last 25 filings.

NameTransaction TypeDateSharesChangePrice
Waldron Thomas E.Grant/Award from Employer22.7.202687,020+1,471
SHEARER ROBERT KGrant/Award from Employer2.7.202641,507+618
Goldsmith AshleyGrant/Award from Employer2.7.20263,462+379
Broyles Jennifer H.Open Market Sale12.6.202640,261-4,000$81.02
SHEARER ROBERT KGrant/Award from Employer1.5.202654,438+2,586
Stewart Shelley JRGrant/Award from Employer1.5.202626,440+2,236
Schiller Mark L.Grant/Award from Employer1.5.202617,720+2,236
CAMPBELL MARYELIZABETH RGrant/Award from Employer1.5.20267,700+2,236
Goldsmith AshleyGrant/Award from Employer1.5.202614,870+2,236
Lynch RobertGrant/Award from Employer2.4.20269,270+723$69.18
Goldsmith AshleyGrant/Award from Employer2.4.20263,063+434$69.18
SHEARER ROBERT KGrant/Award from Employer2.4.202640,581+723$69.18
Baxter Scott HGrant/Award from Employer1.4.2026283,039+51,994
Baxter Scott HTax Withholding in Shares1.4.2026275,140-7,899$69.18
Baxter Scott HTax Withholding in Shares1.4.2026268,161-6,979$69.18
Baxter Scott HTax Withholding in Shares1.4.2026261,092-7,069$69.18
Doerr Thomas L JrGrant/Award from Employer1.4.202634,782+4,333
Doerr Thomas L JrTax Withholding in Shares1.4.202633,971-811$69.18
Doerr Thomas L JrTax Withholding in Shares1.4.202633,273-698$69.18
Doerr Thomas L JrTax Withholding in Shares1.4.202632,667-606$69.18
ALKIRE JOSEPH AGrant/Award from Employer1.4.202657,335+9,821
ALKIRE JOSEPH ATax Withholding in Shares1.4.202656,037-1,298$69.18
ALKIRE JOSEPH ATax Withholding in Shares1.4.202654,844-1,193$69.18
Broyles Jennifer H.Grant/Award from Employer1.4.202645,879+8,666
Broyles Jennifer H.Tax Withholding in Shares1.4.202645,597-282$69.18

📉 Short Interest

Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.

Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest

+1.1%

5,291,466 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 5,233,663 on 2026-06-30

Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.

Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity

-0.2%

53.2% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 53.3% the prior week

Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.

📰 News & Sentiment

Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 6 positive, 8 neutral, 3 negative out of the last 17 articles.