Key Technology (KTEC) Receives Media Impact Rating of 0.21

News articles about Key Technology (NASDAQ:KTEC) have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Key Technology earned a news impact score of 0.21 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave news headlines about the industrial products company an impact score of 45.8760593758384 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next several days.

Separately, TheStreet upgraded Key Technology from a “c” rating to a “b” rating in a research note on Friday, July 28th.

Key Technology (NASDAQ KTEC) traded up 0.14% on Friday, hitting $14.10. The company had a trading volume of 4,125 shares. Key Technology has a 12-month low of $8.92 and a 12-month high of $15.59. The stock has a market cap of $91.45 million, a P/E ratio of 27.17 and a beta of 1.06. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $13.75 and its 200 day moving average price is $13.28.

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Key Technology Company Profile

Key Technology, Inc is a supplier of process automation solutions to the food processing industry and other industries, such as tobacco and pharmaceuticals. The Company designs, manufactures, sells and services automation equipment that processes product streams of discrete pieces. These systems integrate electro-optical automated inspection and digital sorting systems with other processing systems that include specialized conveying and preparation equipment.