Some Investing Thoughts On Murphy Oil Corp. (NYSE: MUR)

Murphy Oil Corp. (MUR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $36.75, with 3.16 million shares of worth about $115.98 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -3.64% during that period and on August 14, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -0.65%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 152.75M shares, out of which, 142.33M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 0.11% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -12.25%. Year-to-date (YTD), MUR shares are showing a performance of -13.85% which decreased to -16.55% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $35.61 but also hit the highest price of $49.14 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Murphy Oil Corp. shares is 1.43 million. The stock is currently trading -6.31% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -7.95% for SMA50 and it goes to -12.34% lower than SMA200.

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Murphy Oil Corp. (NYSE: MUR) currently have 152.75M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.95% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $5.55B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 2.23. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 9.68, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.80 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.72 and has Quick Ratio of 0.76 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.41. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MUR, volatility over the week remained 3.10% while standing at 2.81% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -13.09% while it is estimated to increase by 37.18% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 13.50% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.35% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Stock get an Overweight rating from KeyBanc Capital Markets on July 11, 2023.

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