Antero Resources Corp (NYSE: AR): Reassessing Prospects

Antero Resources Corp (AR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $36.71, with 4.45 million shares of worth about $163.4 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 43.74% during that period and on May 07, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.41%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 311.58M shares, out of which, 287.17M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 5.40% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.50%. Year-to-date (YTD), AR shares are showing a performance of 4.74% which increased to 10.77% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $24.53 but also hit the highest price of $42.62 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Antero Resources Corp shares is 5.39 million. The stock is currently trading 6.55% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 0.76% for SMA50 and it goes to 12.64% higher than SMA200.

Antero Resources Corp (NYSE: AR) currently have 311.58M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 85.16% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.40B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.68. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 50.69, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.72 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.42 and has Quick Ratio of 0.39 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.53. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AR, volatility over the week remained 3.11% while standing at 5.51% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Antero Resources Corp (AR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.65 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.83 and it is 4.01 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.18 which is 0.98 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 -0.19 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 823.08% while it is estimated to increase by 22.10% in next year.

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 TD Cowen on April 08, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $46 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Antero Resources Corp (AR) stock as an Equal weight in their note to investors on December 17, 2024, suggesting a price target of $32 for the stock. On October 28, 2024, BofA Securities Initiated their recommendations, while on October 16, 2024, UBS Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $33. Stock get an Underweight rating from Wells Fargo on October 01, 2024.

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