Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $27.47, with 5.32 million shares of worth about $146.1 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -32.19% during that period and on January 30, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -5.86%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 145.84M shares, out of which, 137.79M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -9.64% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.15%. Year-to-date (YTD), MUR shares are showing a performance of -9.22% which decreased to -29.53% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $27.75 but also hit the highest price of $49.14 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Murphy Oil Corp shares is 1.79 million. The stock is currently trading -12.07% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -11.44% for SMA50 and it goes to -25.11% lower than SMA200.
Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) currently have 145.84M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.87% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $4.01B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 2.14. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 8.88, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.09 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.87 and has Quick Ratio of 0.65 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 3.71% while standing at 3.12% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 14.59% while it is estimated to increase by 30.74% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 10.20% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.35% 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 Morgan Stanley on January 22, 2025 offering an Underweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $37 to it. Coverage by JP Morgan stated Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on August 15, 2024, suggesting a price target of $47 for the stock. Stock get an Equal weight rating from Barclays on April 10, 2024.
