KIRBY CORPORATION
At today's price, KIRBY CORPORATION (KEX) is priced for +14.9% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Kirby is the largest operator of inland tank barges in the US, moving petrochemicals, refined products, and agricultural chemicals on the inland waterways, and it has bolted on a fast-growing power-generation equipment business that is changing the company's growth profile. • The decisive near-term dynamic is barge supply discipline: with little new barge construction, utilization runs in the low-90% range, which gives Kirby pricing power on contract renewals it has not had in years. • Watch t
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418 institutional managers reported holding KEX in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 73 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, among others. On the short side, 1.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (2.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
KEX has cut its share count 10.8% over the past five years, spending $717.15M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $656.65M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at KEX over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
KEX's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| 2023-11-07 | -5.9% | -1.3% |
| 2024-02-21 | +6.5% | +17.9% |
| 2024-05-07 | -0.1% | +4.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
KEX's latest 8-K filings: 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-03-30 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-02-20 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-10-29 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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