Ovintiv Inc (OVV) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $45.91, with 3.0 million shares of worth about $137.93 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -5.28% during that period and on January 16, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.37%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 260.40M shares, out of which, 259.10M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 8.20% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.33%. Year-to-date (YTD), OVV shares are showing a performance of 13.36% which increased to 13.36% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $36.90 but also hit the highest price of $55.95 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Ovintiv Inc shares is 2.81 million. The stock is currently trading 11.84% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 8.51% for SMA50 and it goes to 2.19% higher than SMA200.
Ovintiv Inc (NYSE: OVV) currently have 260.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.12% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.95B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 2.63. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 6.09, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.54 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.52 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for OVV, volatility over the week remained 2.93% while standing at 2.61% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -20.39% while it is estimated to decrease by -15.34% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -1.82% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.25% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on January 13, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $55 and $54 to it. Coverage by Wolfe Research stated Ovintiv Inc (OVV) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on July 18, 2024, suggesting a price target of $65 for the stock. On June 14, 2024, Evercore ISI Upgrade their recommendations, while on April 10, 2024, Barclays Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $69. Stock get an Overweight rating from JP Morgan on December 06, 2023.
