Komatsu Ltd. (OTCMKTS:KMTUY) Sees Significant Growth in Short Interest

Komatsu Ltd. (OTCMKTS:KMTUY) saw a significant increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 33,800 shares, an increase of 8.3% from the July 15th total of 31,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 150,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.2 days.

Komatsu Price Performance

Shares of KMTUY stock traded up $0.63 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $28.78. 54,560 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 112,005. The company has a market cap of $28.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.86, a P/E/G ratio of 1.68 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a current ratio of 2.07 and a quick ratio of 1.11. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $28.94 and its two-hundred day moving average is $29.13. Komatsu has a fifty-two week low of $22.39 and a fifty-two week high of $32.16.

Komatsu Company Profile

Komatsu Ltd. manufactures and sells construction, mining, and utility equipment; and forest and industrial machinery worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Construction, Mining and Utility Equipment; Retail Finance; and Industrial Machinery and Others. It offers construction and mining equipment, including excavators, wheel loaders, and bulldozers, motor graders, dump truck, rope and hybrid shovels, electric wheel loaders, continuous miners, and jumbo drills; The company also provides forestry equipment, including harvesters, forwarders, feller bunchers, excavators, mini excavators, and forklifts; demolition, waste, and recycling equipment, such as mobile crushers, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, and mini shovels; material handling equipment; and tunnel-boring machines, pipe layers, towing tractors, and engines.