Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $23.18, with 7.32 million shares of worth about $169.58 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -35.77% during that period and on April 09, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 18.14%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 145.85M shares, out of which, 134.47M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -20.64% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.20%. Year-to-date (YTD), MUR shares are showing a performance of -23.40% which decreased to -51.89% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $19.23 but also hit the highest price of $48.64 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Murphy Oil Corp shares is 3.18 million. The stock is currently trading -11.34% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -12.51% for SMA50 and it goes to -29.14% lower than SMA200.
Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) currently have 145.85M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 85.60% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $3.31B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.21. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 8.63, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.69 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.59 and has Quick Ratio of 0.77 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.40. 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 14.20% while standing at 5.83% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.5 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.7 and it is 4.07 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.26 which is 0.85 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.85 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.41% while it is estimated to increase by 34.31% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 14.70% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -17.32% 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 Truist on January 31, 2025 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $42 and $31 to it. Coverage by Morgan Stanley stated Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) stock as an Underweight in their note to investors on January 22, 2025, suggesting a price target of $37 for the stock. Stock get a Sector perform rating from Scotiabank on April 11, 2024.
