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KKR & Co. Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 31% YoYStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (112/wk), no spike
$KKR·$92B·Asset Management·Financial Services
$109.72+1.0%YTD-16.0%1Y-20.9%
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2026-08-22: 6 posts112+4%
Price updated 7h ago·X counts updated 9d ago
KKKKR
$KKRKKR & Co. Inc.
$109.72+0.96%112 posts+4%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $KKR, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-08-30

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

Alt-asset giant with a $2.2B SK Telecom AI data-center bet — the tape is finally coiled.

KKR is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers with private-equity, credit, real-estate, and infrastructure funds. Shares are -16% YTD and -22% TTM at $109, and the current setup shows a base-high retest into a very deal-flow-active period.

  • Revenue and EPS are lumpy but scaling: quarterly revenue ran $5.00B / $5.46B / $5.52B / $4.00B, gross margin at 42%, quarterly EPS at $0.53 / $0.97 / $1.24 / $0.41 — analysts model $11.6B and $6.15 EPS for the full year, so at $109 the stock is at roughly 18x forward, defensible for an alt manager at this scale.
  • Deal flow is genuinely accelerating: a KKR + Korean consortium $2.2B investment in SK Telecom's new AI data-center spinoff SK Horizon (KKR getting 29%), the Apollo/KKR joint partnership around Atlantic Aviation, and Enbridge/KKR joint venture in the Westcoast natural gas pipeline — those are three major deal wins in a short window.
  • The DOJ resolution and $250M fine is one-time noise: the $250M premerger notification fine 'lands outside its funds' — that's real cost, but shareholders don't bear it inside fund performance and it doesn't affect ongoing fund-raising trajectory.

A Nov 6 print that shows fee-related earnings growing and adds any specific SK Horizon or fund-raising cadence extends the coil into a real breakout at the 200 SMA level; a fund-underperformance disclosure, a DOJ escalation, or a broader credit-cycle scare is what invalidates the setup.

Agrees with X sentimentX's bullish framing tracks the deal flow — SK Horizon, Atlantic Aviation, Enbridge are all real transactions; the 200 SMA base-high retest technical read matches the tape.

What to watch: The Nov 6 Q3 print — fee-related earnings, dry powder, and any specific SK Horizon or fund cadence commentary. A DOJ escalation or a credit-cycle scare is what invalidates the coil.

On the calendar: 2026-11-06 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment14 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-31

Sentiment is broadly bullish, driven by deal-flow headlines: a $2.2B SK Telecom AI data-center consortium, an ~$17B USI Insurance sale to Aon and IREN hiring away a 'KKR DEALMAKER'. Chartists like the setup, calling it 'not many much better than $KKR currently' as it flags back to base highs on low volume. A private-credit caveat about a 2028 software-debt maturity cliff supplies the counterweight.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Global alternative asset manager with strategies across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and credit.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Asset Management sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $KKR.

Asset Management · Financial Services

Equity market strength is driving AUM growth through market appreciation more than net flows; fee compression continues in passive products while alternatives and private markets hold pricing. Rising markets mask organic flow dynamics — the structural story is the shift toward private asset exposure.

What this means for $KKR

Partial — semiconductor exposure exists but product mix may not fully align with the AI capex driver; KKR & Co.

Top industry ETF

$IAIiShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF
+5.0%YTD
+13.1%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
32.0How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
18.0%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
16.3%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
7.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
4.5Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
9.9%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
41.7%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.8Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 30, 2026$1.63$1.43+14.0%
Q1 2026May 5, 2026$1.39$1.26+10.3%
Q4 2025Feb 5, 2026$1.12$1.14-1.8%
Q3 2025Nov 7, 2025$1.41$1.30+8.5%
Next earningsFri, Nov 6·consensus EPS $1.59

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$4.0B+31.0%99.5%5.1%$0.41$1.9B
Q4 FY25$5.5B+72.5%35.6%40.0%$1.24$2.3B
Q3 FY25$5.5B+15.5%24.7%9.4%$0.97$2.4B
Q2 FY25$5.0B+21.8%21.0%6.5%$0.53$371.4M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 5 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$11.6B$11.5B – $11.6B$6.15$5.93 – $6.345
FY27$13.6B$13.4B – $13.9B$7.31$6.85 – $7.565
FY28$16.2B$15.5B – $17.1B$8.49$8.02 – $8.963
FY29$9.7B$9.3B – $10.2B$9.76$9.17 – $10.412

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.9×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.39%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+8.1%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+3.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 690.2M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.6% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.795-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

No open-market buys or sells in the last 180 days.

+ 2 other (2 awards) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KPress release / Reg FDAug 278-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

KKR & Co. Inc. entered into a Stipulation with the DOJ Antitrust Division resolving a civil antitrust complaint (filed January 2025) regarding certain premerger notification (HSR Act) compliance failures by KKR affiliates in 2021 and 2022. Pursuant to the Stipulation, a KKR subsidiary will pay $250 million to the DOJ contingent on court approval; the DOJ simultaneously terminated all related investigations. The $250M penalty is material but the clearance of the DOJ complaint and investigation terminations removes a significant legal overhang for KKR.

8-KMaterial agreementJul 318-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
AI summary

KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR) subsidiary KKR Group Partnership L.P. entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement on July 30, 2026, providing a $3.0 billion senior unsecured multicurrency revolving credit facility with HSBC Bank USA as administrative agent, maturing July 30, 2031 (5-year term). The facility can be upsized by up to $750M with lender consent. This replaces the prior Third Amended Credit Agreement from July 3, 2024. The refinancing is a routine corporate treasury action extending and expanding KKR's liquidity facility at improved or market-standard terms.

8-KOfficer or director changeMay 298-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

KKR & Co.'s annual meeting re-elected all 11 director nominees including co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts and co-CEOs Joseph Bae and Scott Nuttall, with non-employee directors continuing under the existing compensation program. Standard routine annual governance confirmation for the alternative asset management firm.

8-KShareholder voteMay 288-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

KKR's reconvened special meeting on May 21, 2026 failed to achieve the required 90% quorum threshold to vote on eliminating the supermajority voting requirement in its charter—only 86.60% of outstanding shares were represented (97.83% of votes cast were in favor). The supermajority requirement remains in place. Proposals 2, 3, and 4 on other charter amendments were already approved at the April 21 meeting.

S-3ASRAuto-shelf registrationMay 11S-3ASR
8-KShareholder voteApr 248-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
+ 11 other (4 proxys · 3 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

KKR-backed OPI nail polish owner Wella Co files for US IPOreuters.com·12h agoKKR To Sell USI to Aon plc in $17 Billion Transactionbusinesswire.com·21h agoAon close to acquiring USI Insurance from KKR in $17B deal: reportnypost.com·1d agoAon close to acquiring USI Insurance from KKR in $17 billion deal, WSJ reportsreuters.com·2d agoKKR's $250 Million Fine Lands Outside Its Fundsgurufocus.com·4d ago

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