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KNF
Knife River Corp
NYSE· Basic Materials· Building Materials· CUSIP 498894104
$53.85+2.69%Price as of Oct 23, 00:49 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Knife River Corp (KNF) is listed on NYSE and classified in Building Materials, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Bismarck, United States and has 5,298 employees. The company is worth $3.06B and trades at 21.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 19.1x. Revenue was $3.15B in fiscal 2025, up 8.5% from the year before. Net income was $157.07M. The share price is 44.1% below its 52-week high of $96.28. 3 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Baillie Gifford (Baillie Gifford & Co), at $229.14M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $3.06B
- P/E
- 21.3x
- Forward P/E
- 16.6x
- P/B
- 1.9x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $2.53
- ROE
- 9.12%
- Profit margin
- 4.23%
- Revenue growth
- +12.60%
- Beta
- 0.60
- 52-week high
- $96.28
- 52-week low
- $47.79
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +16.1% over 5Y.
This stock has less than 5 years of price history — the answer would measure a shorter period than the one asked for.
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 3 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $70.35 | $101.64 | $66.18 | |
| P/E | 25.5x | 25.5x | 28.6x | 20.5x |
| P/S | 1.3x | 1.3x | 2.0x | 1.3x |
| P/B | 3.0x | 2.4x | 3.9x | 3.0x |
| EPS | $2.76 | $3.55 | $3.23 | |
| Profit margin | 6.46% | 4.99% |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$40.13
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$12.09
Earnings growing 4.8% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$48.36
Median P/E of 19.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Cash flow
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Operating
$63.29
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EROEro Copper Corp. | $30.13 | 10.8x | 2.6x | 0.00% | 30.81% | $3.14B |
| USLMUnited States Lime & Minerals Inc | $111.50 | 23.9x | 4.6x | 0.22% | 21.35% | $3.2B |
| TGBTrekor Metals Ltd | $7.97 | 398.5x | 4.8x | 0.00% | 2.21% | $2.92B |
| CENXCentury Aluminum Co | $32.65 |
About the company
- 5,298
- Bismarck, United States