Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE:MUR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.45M but it saw 2279607 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.00B USD, the company’s current market price of $21.00 came rising about 0.33 while comparing to the previous closing price of $20.93. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $43.02 and as low as $18.94.
Roth Capital downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on May 15, 2025 while assigning a price target of $25. Mizuho also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $31.
Over the week, MUR’s stock price is moving -6.91% down while it is 1.99% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -30.60% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -50.93%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.22 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.82. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $669.12M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $2.64B and seeing the company making $2.82B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $632.51M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Murphy Oil Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 142.72M with 6.48% of that held by the insiders while 93.76% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.51% and return on equity (ROE) at 7.54%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 8.06 while having a 7.88 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.08. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.59 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.03. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.03% on average.
