Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE:MUR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.20M but it saw 2261841 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.30B USD, the company’s current market price of $23.12 came rising about 2.66 while comparing to the previous closing price of $22.52. 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. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $22.42 while lowest mark touched by it was $23.29.
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 -7.74% down while it is 7.89% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -43.73% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -23.60%.
Currently, Murphy Oil Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 142.72M with 6.45% of that held by the insiders while 93.83% 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 8.87 while having a 8.98 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.07. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.64 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.14. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.03% on average.
