Analysts await Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NASDAQ:KOS) to report earnings on May, 09 for the fiscal quarter ending Mar 2016.

They expect $-0.06 EPS, up 200% or $0.12 from last year’s $-0.18 per share.

At the moment 13 analysts are watching Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NASDAQ:KOS), 3 rate it “Buy”, 4 “Outperform”, 5 “Underperform”, 1 “Sell”, while 0 “Hold”.

Looking forward, for the quarter ending Jun-16, 5 analysts have a mean sales target of 98.77 million. For the quarter ending Sep-16, 5 analysts have a mean sales target of 121.83 million whilst for the year ending Dec-16, 8 analysts have a mean target of 539.00 million.

In terms of earnings per share, 9 analysts have a -0.12 EPS mean target for the quarter ending Jun-16, for the quarter ending Sep-16, 9 analysts have a -0.15 EPS mean target and for the quarter ending Sep-16 there are 13 estimates of -0.39 EPS.

The biggest institutional shareholders in Kosmos Energy Ltd. include Warburg Pincus LLC which owns 118 million shares in the company valued at $613.65 million. Blackstone Group LP is the second biggest holder with 97 million shares currently valued at 502.07 million whilst Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC has 32 million shares valued at 167.16 million.

Total shares held by institutions as of the most recent company filings are 356,293,245 with a reported 15,687,531 bought and 25,388,466 sold. These holdings make up 92.48% of the company’s outstanding shares.

Currently insiders hold 19,621,967 shares in the business which makes up 5.09% of shares. The biggest holder currently is Mr. W. Greg Dunlevy who owns 5,873,188 shares (1.52% of those outstanding), whilst Mr. Paul Dailly holds 4,297,006 (1.12% of shares outstanding) and Mr. Brian F. Maxted holds 1,769,101 (0.46% of shares outstanding).

The stock decreased 2.56% or $0.14 during the last trading session, hitting $5.32. Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NASDAQ:KOS) has fallen 43.23% over the past 6 months and is downtrending.