No Stopping Conoco Phillips (NYSE: COP) These Days

Conoco Phillips (NYSE:COP) does about 5.60M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 4212061 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 153.23B USD. Its current market price is $130.25, marking a decrease of -0.72% compared to the previous close of $131.20. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $135.18 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $94.48.

Conoco Phillips (COP) has a 20-day trading average at $128.26 and the current price is -3.65% off the 52-week high compared with 37.86% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $118.89 and its 200-day simple moving average is $116.49. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.15%, which decreases to 1.67% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 65.94 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $140.25, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 7.13% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 10, 2024 when Barclays initiated the stock to “Overweight” and issued a price target of $158. Johnson Rice initiated its price target at $135.

Conoco Phillips (COP) stock is down -1.64% over the week and 8.74% over the past month. Its price is 12.42% year-to-date and 20.99% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/31/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $2.4 above consensus estimates by $0.31. COP’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 0.80% this year and 9.70% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $15.04 billion, which analysts say will come at $58.88 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $60.86 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $15.07 billion.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 7.13 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 16.16% and return on equity of 22.47%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 14.36 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 13.48. The beta has a value of 1.25. Price to book ratio is 3.11 and price to sales ratio is 2.73.