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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CRC California Resources	$50.76 -4.1%	$53.89	$37.21 ▼ $58.44	$3.49B	1.03	841,574 shs	202,696 shs
DEN Denbury	$88.66	$89.94	$75.33 ▼ $100.65	$4.56B	2.41	1.01 million shs	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	$44.54 -0.4%	$44.66	$32.80 ▼ $49.14	$6.80B	2.22	1.77 million shs	113,392 shs
SM SM Energy	$51.36 +0.4%	$48.59	$25.03 ▼ $53.26	$5.94B	4.21	1.57 million shs	166,765 shs
VNOM Viper Energy	$37.50 +0.2%	$37.95	$24.48 ▼ $41.22	$6.63B	1.78	936,817 shs	64,534 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CRC California Resources	+0.47%	+0.15%	-3.34%	-0.55%	+33.35%
DEN Denbury	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	-0.87%
MUR Murphy Oil	+0.60%	+0.26%	-8.63%	+17.84%	+29.66%
SM SM Energy	+0.93%	+5.48%	-3.03%	+40.36%	+93.71%
VNOM Viper Energy	-0.05%	-1.89%	-4.59%	+18.29%	+38.67%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CRC California Resources	3.6482 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	2.5	0.0	2.6	1.7	3.1
DEN Denbury	0.2521 of 5 stars	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.1
MUR Murphy Oil	4.7246 of 5 stars	3.3	2.0	2.5	1.6	2.5	2.5	3.1
SM SM Energy	3.7572 of 5 stars	2.3	1.0	2.5	0.0	3.8	1.7	2.5
VNOM Viper Energy	3.3286 of 5 stars	2.5	5.0	2.5	0.0	2.7	1.7	1.3

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CRC California Resources	2.71	Moderate Buy	$63.57	25.24% Upside
DEN Denbury	2.00	Hold	$93.33	5.27% Upside
MUR Murphy Oil	2.55	Moderate Buy	$50.64	13.69% Upside
SM SM Energy	2.63	Moderate Buy	$52.57	2.36% Upside
VNOM Viper Energy	3.00	Buy	$41.29	10.10% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest CRC, VNOM, SM, DEN, and MUR Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/2/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$52.00 ➝ $53.00
5/1/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	TD Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$40.00 ➝ $42.00
4/23/2024	CRC California Resources	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$68.00 ➝ $69.00
4/22/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$50.00 ➝ $54.00
4/22/2024	SM SM Energy	Susquehanna Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$42.00 ➝ $51.00
4/22/2024	SM SM Energy	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$62.00 ➝ $65.00
4/19/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$49.00 ➝ $55.00
4/19/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$36.00 ➝ $43.00
4/18/2024	SM SM Energy	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$45.00 ➝ $51.00
4/15/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$53.00 ➝ $55.00
4/12/2024	SM SM Energy	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$51.00 ➝ $62.00

(Data available from 5/8/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CRC California Resources	$2.80B	1.25	$8.55 per share	5.94	$32.34 per share	1.57
DEN Denbury	$1.48B	3.08	$10.43 per share	8.50	$30.77 per share	2.88
MUR Murphy Oil	$3.40B	2.00	$10.33 per share	4.31	$35.93 per share	1.24
SM SM Energy	$2.37B	2.50	$12.32 per share	4.17	$31.09 per share	1.65
VNOM Viper Energy	$827.70M	8.01	$1.98 per share	18.93	$16.16 per share	2.32

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CRC California Resources	$564M	$7.72	6.58	7.15	N/A	20.14%	17.57%	9.39%	7/29/2024 (Estimated)
DEN Denbury	$480.16M	$8.96	9.90	13.33	N/A	32.34%	19.82%	13.10%	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	$661.56M	$3.59	12.41	7.04	N/A	16.40%	11.75%	6.51%	8/1/2024 (Estimated)
SM SM Energy	$817.88M	$6.38	8.05	7.38	N/A	31.80%	20.10%	11.34%	8/7/2024 (Estimated)
VNOM Viper Energy	$200.09M	$2.72	13.79	20.27	N/A	24.24%	8.10%	5.99%	7/29/2024 (Estimated)

Latest CRC, VNOM, SM, DEN, and MUR Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/7/2024	Q1 2024	CRC California Resources	$0.58	$0.75	+$0.17	$1.64	$490.21 million	$454.00 million
5/2/2024	Q1 2024	MUR Murphy Oil	$0.82	$0.85	+$0.03	$1.11	$750.94 million	$794.80 million
2/27/2024	Q4 2023	CRC California Resources	$1.01	$0.93	-$0.08	-$0.74	$553.47 million	$726.00 million
2/21/2024	Q4 2023	SM SM Energy	$1.39	$1.56	+$0.17	$1.00	$611.35 million	$608.73 million
2/20/2024	Q4 2023	VNOM Viper Energy	$0.47	$0.67	+$0.20	$0.64	$204.61 million	$204.70 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CRC California Resources	$1.24	2.44%	N/A	16.06%	1 Years
DEN Denbury	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	$1.20	2.69%	+20.74%	33.43%	3 Years
SM SM Energy	$0.72	1.40%	+210.72%	11.29%	1 Years
VNOM Viper Energy	$1.08	2.88%	+15.21%	39.71%	1 Years

Latest CRC, VNOM, SM, DEN, and MUR Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/3/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	quarterly	$0.30	2.54%	5/17/2024	5/20/2024	6/3/2024
4/30/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	None	$0.59	2.9%	5/14/2024	5/15/2024	5/22/2024
3/26/2024	SM SM Energy	Quarterly	$0.18	1.47%	4/18/2024	4/19/2024	5/3/2024
2/27/2024	CRC California Resources	Quarterly	$0.31	2.35%	3/5/2024	3/6/2024	3/18/2024
2/20/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	None	$0.56	3%	3/4/2024	3/5/2024	3/12/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CRC California Resources	0.24	1.51	1.39
DEN Denbury	0.05	0.71	0.71
MUR Murphy Oil	0.24	0.93	0.87
SM SM Energy	0.43	1.48	1.45
VNOM Viper Energy	0.38	3.46	3.46

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CRC California Resources	97.79%
DEN Denbury	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	78.31%
SM SM Energy	94.56%
VNOM Viper Energy	87.72%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CRC California Resources	0.63%
DEN Denbury	0.14%
MUR Murphy Oil	5.92%
SM SM Energy	1.50%
VNOM Viper Energy	0.30%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CRC California Resources	970	68.76 million	68.33 million	Optionable
DEN Denbury	793	51.45 million	51.38 million	Not Optionable
MUR Murphy Oil	725	152.58 million	143.50 million	Optionable
SM SM Energy	544	115.75 million	114.01 million	Optionable
VNOM Viper Energy	2,020	176.85 million	176.32 million	Optionable

CRC, VNOM, SM, DEN, and MUR Headlines

Source	Headline
	Viper Energy’s Strong Q1 Performance and Positive Outlook Justify Buy Rating markets.businessinsider.com - May 5 at 4:12 PM
	Truist Financial Boosts Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Price Target to $53.00 americanbankingnews.com - May 5 at 5:46 AM
	FY2024 EPS Estimates for Viper Energy, Inc. Increased by Analyst (NASDAQ:VNOM) americanbankingnews.com - May 4 at 2:52 AM
	Q2 2024 Earnings Forecast for Viper Energy, Inc. Issued By Roth Capital (NASDAQ:VNOM) americanbankingnews.com - May 4 at 1:43 AM
	Here's What Analysts Are Forecasting For Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) After Its First-Quarter Results finance.yahoo.com - May 3 at 11:01 PM
	Capital One Financial Comments on Viper Energy, Inc.'s FY2024 Earnings (NASDAQ:VNOM) marketbeat.com - May 3 at 9:58 AM
	Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) PT Raised to $42.00 at TD Securities americanbankingnews.com - May 3 at 5:10 AM
	Q4 2024 EPS Estimates for Viper Energy, Inc. Decreased by Analyst (NASDAQ:VNOM) americanbankingnews.com - May 3 at 4:00 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Raises Dividend to $0.59 Per Share marketbeat.com - May 2 at 10:04 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Expected to Post Q4 2024 Earnings of $0.35 Per Share marketbeat.com - May 2 at 8:38 AM
	Q1 2024 Viper Energy Inc Earnings Call finance.yahoo.com - May 2 at 8:07 AM
	Viper Energy Inc (VNOM) (Q1 2024) Earnings Call Transcript Highlights: A Strong Start with ... finance.yahoo.com - May 2 at 8:07 AM
	Viper Energy First Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS: US$0.49 (vs US$0.47 in 1Q 2023) finance.yahoo.com - May 2 at 8:07 AM
	Peering Into Viper Energy's Recent Short Interest benzinga.com - May 1 at 8:52 PM
	TD Securities Raises Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Price Target to $42.00 marketbeat.com - May 1 at 1:47 PM
	Viper Energy (VNOM) Tops on Q1 Earnings, Expects '24 Output Hike zacks.com - May 1 at 1:10 PM
	Viper Energy declares $0.27 dividend, variable dividend of $0.32 msn.com - May 1 at 10:51 AM
	Viper Energy Inc (VNOM) Surpasses Q1 Earnings Estimates with Strong Production and Financial ... finance.yahoo.com - April 30 at 7:47 PM
	Viper Energy, Inc., a Subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc., Reports First Quarter 2024 Financial and Operating Results globenewswire.com - April 30 at 4:01 PM
	Viper Energy Q1 2024 Earnings Preview msn.com - April 29 at 10:13 PM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Receives Average Rating of "Buy" from Brokerages marketbeat.com - April 23 at 2:13 AM
	Viper Energy (VNOM) Scheduled to Post Quarterly Earnings on Tuesday marketbeat.com - April 23 at 1:29 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Shares Purchased by International Assets Investment Management LLC marketbeat.com - April 20 at 4:42 AM
	Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Price Target Raised to $43.00 marketbeat.com - April 19 at 2:26 PM

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Company Descriptions

California Resources

NYSE:CRC

California Resources Corporation operates as an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production, and carbon management company in the United States. The company explores, produces, and markets crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids for marketers, California refineries, and other purchasers that have access to transportation and storage facilities. It also engages in the generation and sale of electricity to the wholesale power market and utility sector; and developing various carbon capture and storage projects in California. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Long Beach, California.

Denbury

NYSE:DEN

Denbury Inc. operates as an independent energy company in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. It holds interests in various oil and natural gas properties located in Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana in the Gulf Coast region; and in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming in the Rocky Mountain region. The company was formerly known as Denbury Resources Inc. and changed its name to Denbury Inc. in September 2020. Denbury Inc. was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

Murphy Oil

NYSE:MUR

Murphy Oil Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. The company was formerly known as Murphy Corporation and changed its name to Murphy Oil Corporation in 1964. The company was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

SM Energy

NYSE:SM

SM Energy Company, an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids in the state of Texas. It has working interests in oil and gas producing wells in the Midland Basin and South Texas. The company was formerly known as St. Mary Land & Exploration Company and changed its name to SM Energy Company in May 2010. SM Energy Company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Viper Energy

NASDAQ:VNOM

Viper Energy, Inc. owns and acquires mineral and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties in the Permian Basin, North America. Viper Energy Partners GP LLC operates as the general partner of the company. The company was formerly known as Viper Energy Partners LP and changed its name to Viper Energy, Inc. in November 2023. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Midland, Texas. Viper Energy, Inc. is a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc.

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