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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
BSM Black Stone Minerals	$16.39 +1.2%	$15.80	$14.80 ▼ $18.55	$3.45B	0.91	489,119 shs	572,077 shs
EQT EQT	$40.27 +2.0%	$36.75	$30.84 ▼ $45.23	$17.78B	1.09	6.59 million shs	5.99 million shs
MUR Murphy Oil	$44.15 -0.2%	$44.38	$32.80 ▼ $49.14	$6.74B	2.22	1.80 million shs	1.67 million shs
VET Vermilion Energy	$11.79 +0.3%	$11.83	$9.81 ▼ $15.98	$1.88B	2.04	1.23 million shs	1.22 million shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
BSM Black Stone Minerals	+1.69%	+0.71%	-1.76%	+0.15%	+4.65%
EQT EQT	+2.20%	-2.30%	+7.08%	+12.67%	+25.33%
MUR Murphy Oil	+0.11%	-4.80%	-5.79%	+16.92%	+29.41%
VET Vermilion Energy	+4.04%	-2.49%	-6.46%	+14.22%	+2.18%

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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
BSM Black Stone Minerals	2.3806 of 5 stars	2.2	2.0	1.7	0.0	1.1	2.5	2.5
EQT EQT	3.9308 of 5 stars	3.3	1.0	2.5	0.0	1.9	1.7	2.5
MUR Murphy Oil	4.6752 of 5 stars	3.3	2.0	2.5	1.6	2.3	2.5	3.1
VET Vermilion Energy	2.9604 of 5 stars	3.4	2.0	1.7	0.0	1.8	0.0	2.5

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
BSM Black Stone Minerals	2.33	Hold	$19.33	17.96% Upside
EQT EQT	2.53	Moderate Buy	$44.56	10.66% Upside
MUR Murphy Oil	2.55	Moderate Buy	$50.64	14.69% Upside
VET Vermilion Energy	2.75	Moderate Buy	$25.00	112.04% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest MUR, EQT, BSM, and VET Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/30/2024	EQT EQT	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$41.00 ➝ $46.00
4/26/2024	EQT EQT	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$40.00 ➝ $43.00
4/24/2024	EQT EQT	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$46.00 ➝ $47.00
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
4/19/2024	EQT EQT	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$47.00 ➝ $41.00
4/19/2024	EQT EQT	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold	$43.00
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
4/17/2024	EQT EQT	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$37.00 ➝ $49.00
4/17/2024	EQT EQT	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Overweight ➝ Equal Weight	$48.00 ➝ $37.00
4/16/2024	EQT EQT	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$39.00 ➝ $40.00
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

(Data available from 5/3/2021 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
BSM Black Stone Minerals	$592.22M	5.82	$2.30 per share	7.12	$4.37 per share	3.75
EQT EQT	$6.91B	2.57	$6.83 per share	5.90	$34.36 per share	1.17
MUR Murphy Oil	$3.46B	1.95	$10.22 per share	4.32	$35.93 per share	1.23
VET Vermilion Energy	$2.20B	0.86	$5.95 per share	1.98	$13.84 per share	0.85

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
BSM Black Stone Minerals	$422.55M	$1.87	8.76	10.31	N/A	70.46%	42.38%	30.78%	5/6/2024 (Confirmed)
EQT EQT	$1.74B	$1.38	29.18	10.04	N/A	10.96%	4.57%	2.66%	7/23/2024 (Estimated)
MUR Murphy Oil	$661.56M	$4.22	10.46	6.95	N/A	19.12%	13.02%	7.06%	8/1/2024 (Estimated)
VET Vermilion Energy	-$176.01M	-$1.11	N/A	4.59	N/A	-30.71%	11.16%	5.81%	8/7/2024 (Estimated)

Latest MUR, EQT, BSM, and VET Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/6/2024	N/A	BSM Black Stone Minerals	$0.34	N/A	-$0.34	N/A	N/A	N/A
5/2/2024	Q1 2024	MUR Murphy Oil	$0.82	$0.85	+$0.03	$1.11	$750.94 million	$794.80 million
5/1/2024	Q1 2024	VET Vermilion Energy	$0.79	$0.01	-$0.78	$0.01	N/A	$376.85 million
4/23/2024	Q1 2024	EQT EQT	$0.65	$0.82	+$0.17	$1.41	$1.58 billion	$1.30 billion
3/6/2024	Q4 2023	VET Vermilion Energy	$0.53	$0.95	+$0.42	$5.51	$442.92 million	$384.17 million
2/20/2024	12/31/2023	BSM Black Stone Minerals	$0.50	$0.65	+$0.15	$0.65	$142.67 million	$190.84 million
2/13/2024	Q4 23	EQT EQT	$0.47	$0.48	+$0.01	-$0.17	$1.58 billion	$1.55 billion

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
BSM Black Stone Minerals	$1.90	11.59%	N/A	101.60%	3 Years
EQT EQT	$0.63	1.56%	+172.57%	45.65%	2 Years
MUR Murphy Oil	$1.20	2.72%	+20.74%	28.44%	3 Years
VET Vermilion Energy	$0.29	2.46%	-11.39%	N/A	2 Years

Latest MUR, EQT, BSM, and VET Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/1/2024	VET Vermilion Energy	quarterly	$0.0872	2.2%	6/28/2024	6/28/2024	7/15/2024
4/3/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	quarterly	$0.30	2.54%	5/17/2024	5/20/2024	6/3/2024
4/17/2024	EQT EQT	quarterly	$0.1575	1.75%	5/7/2024	5/8/2024	6/1/2024
4/17/2024	BSM Black Stone Minerals	Quarterly	$0.3750	9.77%	5/9/2024	5/10/2024	5/17/2024
3/8/2024	VET Vermilion Energy	quarterly	$0.0888	2.4%	3/27/2024	3/28/2024	4/15/2024
2/8/2024	EQT EQT	quarterly	$0.1575	1.81%	2/16/2024	2/20/2024	3/1/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
BSM Black Stone Minerals	N/A	7.48	7.48
EQT EQT	0.32	0.88	0.88
MUR Murphy Oil	0.24	0.89	0.82
VET Vermilion Energy	0.31	1.18	1.10

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
BSM Black Stone Minerals	14.49%
EQT EQT	90.81%
MUR Murphy Oil	78.31%
VET Vermilion Energy	31.91%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
BSM Black Stone Minerals	19.60%
EQT EQT	0.63%
MUR Murphy Oil	5.92%
VET Vermilion Energy	2.60%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
BSM Black Stone Minerals	2,020	210.31 million	169.09 million	Optionable
EQT EQT	881	441.59 million	438.81 million	Optionable
MUR Murphy Oil	725	152.58 million	143.54 million	Optionable
VET Vermilion Energy	740	159.86 million	155.70 million	Optionable

MUR, EQT, BSM, and VET Headlines

Source	Headline
	Vermilion Energy First Quarter 2024 Earnings: Misses Expectations finance.yahoo.com - May 3 at 12:04 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.09 (NYSE:VET) marketbeat.com - May 2 at 4:56 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. Reports Voting Results of Annual General Meeting prnewswire.com - May 2 at 4:01 PM
	Vermilion Energy (NYSE:VET) Posts Earnings Results, Misses Expectations By $0.78 EPS marketbeat.com - May 2 at 2:39 PM
	Vermilion Energy (NYSE:VET) Trading 7.3% Higher marketbeat.com - May 2 at 2:26 PM
	Vermilion Energy: Very Strong Free Cash Flow In Q1 And An Attractive Valuation seekingalpha.com - May 2 at 8:28 AM
	Head-To-Head Contrast: Sundance Energy (OTCMKTS:SNDEQ) & Vermilion Energy (NYSE:VET) americanbankingnews.com - May 2 at 1:10 AM
	Vermilion: Q1 Earnings Snapshot houstonchronicle.com - May 1 at 8:41 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. Announces $0.12 CDN Cash Dividend for July 15, 2024 Payment Date prnewswire.com - May 1 at 4:05 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. Announces Results for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 prnewswire.com - May 1 at 4:05 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) Shares Acquired by Intact Investment Management Inc. marketbeat.com - April 27 at 2:43 PM
	Gas prices retreat after recent major spike, with Ontario leading declines ca.finance.yahoo.com - April 26 at 12:39 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. to Post Q3 2024 Earnings of $0.57 Per Share, Atb Cap Markets Forecasts (NYSE:VET) americanbankingnews.com - April 25 at 2:30 AM
	Q3 2024 EPS Estimates for Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) Cut by Atb Cap Markets marketbeat.com - April 24 at 6:16 AM
	Vermilion Energy (VET) to Release Earnings on Wednesday americanbankingnews.com - April 24 at 2:12 AM
	Q1 2024 EPS Estimates for Vermilion Energy Inc. Decreased by Atb Cap Markets (NYSE:VET) americanbankingnews.com - April 24 at 1:26 AM
	Brokers Set Expectations for Vermilion Energy Inc.'s Q1 2024 Earnings (NYSE:VET) marketbeat.com - April 23 at 5:57 AM
	Vontobel Holding Ltd. Purchases Shares of 75,000 Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) marketbeat.com - April 22 at 5:21 AM
	Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits Promotes Drew Vermilion to Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Strategy & Chief of Staff businesswire.com - April 17 at 9:00 AM
	Short Interest in Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) Expands By 31.6% marketbeat.com - April 15 at 11:34 PM
	Tobam Reduces Holdings in Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) marketbeat.com - April 11 at 7:15 AM
	Vanguard Group Inc. Boosts Stock Position in Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) marketbeat.com - April 6 at 4:14 AM
	Vermilion in Bloom to host first planting day of year April 11 morningjournal.com - April 3 at 7:09 PM
	Vermilion Energy Inc. Confirms First Quarter 2024 Release Date and Filing of the Management Information Circular in Connection with the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders prnewswire.com - March 28 at 4:05 PM

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Company Descriptions

Black Stone Minerals

NYSE:BSM

Black Stone Minerals, L.P., together with its subsidiaries, owns and manages oil and natural gas mineral interests. It owns mineral interests in approximately 16.8 million gross acres, nonparticipating royalty interests in 1.8 million gross acres, and overriding royalty interests in 1.6 million gross acres located in 41 states in the United States. The company was founded in 1876 and is based in Houston, Texas.

EQT

NYSE:EQT

EQT Corporation operates as a natural gas production company in the United States. The company sells natural gas and natural gas liquids to marketers, utilities, and industrial customers through pipelines located in the Appalachian Basin. It also offers marketing services and contractual pipeline capacity management services. The company was formerly known as Equitable Resources Inc. and changed its name to EQT Corporation in February 2009. EQT Corporation was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

Vermilion Energy

NYSE:VET

Vermilion Energy Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of petroleum and natural gas. The company has properties in West Central Alberta, southeast Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and West Pembina in Canada; Wyoming in the United States; southwest Bordeaux and Paris Basin in France; the Netherlands; Germany; Ireland; Croatia; Slovakia; and Australia. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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