Currently, there are 2.63B common shares owned by the public and among those 2.61B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.62% and -16.74% over the past three months. BP shares are trading -0.54% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -22.14% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $25.22 and touched a high of $37.60 over the same period. BP has an average intraday trading volume of 12.54 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.24%, -3.24%, and -5.86% respectively.
Institutional ownership of BP plc ADR (NYSE: BP) shares accounts for 12.91% of the company’s 2.63B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $76.82B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.51. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.46. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.55% over the week and 2.10% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -22.18%, and 16.55% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 3.55% over the next five years, compared to -34.57% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the BP, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Jefferies stated their Hold rating for the stock in a research note on May 19, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $29. Morgan Stanley coverage for the BP plc ADR (BP) stock in a research note released on May 12, 2025 offered a Underweight rating with a price target of $26.50. UBS was of a view on April 10, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while TD Cowen gave the stock Hold rating on March 19, 2025, issuing a price target of $40. JP Morgan on their part issued Neutral rating on February 20, 2025.
