Koppers Holdings Inc. (KOP) Stock Analysis
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Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $46.21 — A.R:R is negative (-0.5) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (5.0% away).
Koppers Holdings Inc. provides treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals, and carbon compounds in the United States, Australasia, Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Railroad and Utility Products and Services; Performance Chemicals; and... Read more
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $46.21 — A.R:R is negative (-0.5) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (5.0% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 5.1/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 34d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
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Revenue shrinking — -0.3% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
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Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $46.21 — A.R:R is negative (-0.5) — price has exceeded the analyst target. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Near 52-week high (5.0% away). Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $43.03. Score 5.1/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $47.66 (+3.1% upside). Prior stop was $43.03. Stop-loss: $43.03.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Near 52-week high (5.0% away); Leverage penalty (D/E 1.9): -1.0.
Koppers Holdings Inc. trades at a P/E of 12.3 (forward 9.8). TrendMatrix value score: 7.5/10. Verdict: Sell.
7 analysts cover KOP with a consensus score of 4.3/5. Average price target: $51.
What does Koppers Holdings Inc. do?Koppers Holdings Inc. provides treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals, and carbon compounds in the United...
Koppers Holdings Inc. provides treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals, and carbon compounds in the United States, Australasia, Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Railroad and Utility Products and Services; Performance Chemicals; and Carbon Materials and Chemicals. The company procures and treats crossties, switch ties, and various types of lumber used for railroad bridges and crossings; offers utility products, including pressure treatment of transmission and distribution poles for electric and telephone utilities; untreated wood products and rail joint bars; provides railroad markets and inspection services to the utility markets; and operate a business related to the recovery of used crossties. It also provides copper-based wood preservatives comprising micronized copper azole, micronized pigments, alkaline copper quaternary, amine copper azole, dichloro-octyl-isothiazolinone, chromated copper arsenate under the MicroPro and MicroShades brands for decking, fencing, utility poles, construction lumber and timbers, and various agricultural applications; and supplies fire-retardant chemicals under the FlamePro brand for pressure treatment of wood applications. In addition, the company offers creosote for the treatment of wood or as a feedstock in the production of carbon black; carbon pitch, a raw material used in the production of aluminum and steel; naphthalene for use as a surfactant in the production of concrete; and carbon black feedstock. It serves the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber, and construction sectors. Koppers Holdings Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.