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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Stocks - Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CRC California Resources	$53.69 -0.2%	$53.88	$37.21 ▼ $58.44	$3.70B	1.02	631,717 shs	427,140 shs
DEN Denbury	$88.66	$89.94	$75.33 ▼ $100.65	$4.56B	2.41	1.01 million shs	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	$45.21 -0.2%	$43.01	$32.80 ▼ $49.14	$6.91B	2.21	1.30 million shs	1.27 million shs
SM SM Energy	$48.03 -2.6%	$45.98	$25.03 ▼ $53.26	$5.71B	4.2	1.47 million shs	1.30 million shs
VNOM Viper Energy	$38.92	$36.93	$24.48 ▼ $41.22	$6.88B	1.79	777,820 shs	763,698 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	-0.22%	-5.02%	-1.83%	+6.21%	+34.19%
DEN Denbury	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	-5.43%
MUR Murphy Oil	-0.18%	-5.24%	+0.96%	+19.75%	+19.01%
SM SM Energy	-2.56%	-7.12%	+0.52%	+34.65%	+65.34%
VNOM Viper Energy	0.00%	-4.61%	+4.26%	+26.61%	+32.11%

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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	3.1533 of 5 stars	2.4	1.0	2.5	0.0	3.2	1.7	3.1
DEN Denbury	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	4.7039 of 5 stars	2.3	5.0	2.5	1.6	3.1	2.5	3.1
SM SM Energy	3.4432 of 5 stars	2.3	1.0	2.5	0.0	3.2	1.7	2.5
VNOM Viper Energy	2.5394 of 5 stars	1.5	3.0	2.5	0.0	3.0	1.7	2.5

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CRC California Resources	2.71	Moderate Buy	$63.43	18.14% Upside
DEN Denbury	2.00	Hold	$93.33	5.27% Upside
MUR Murphy Oil	2.50	Moderate Buy	$49.00	8.38% Upside
SM SM Energy	2.63	Moderate Buy	$50.86	5.89% Upside
VNOM Viper Energy	3.00	Buy	$39.50	1.49% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

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

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
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
4/11/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Sector Outperform ➝ Sector Perform	$46.00 ➝ $50.00
4/10/2024	CRC California Resources	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Equal Weight	$62.00
4/10/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Equal Weight	$54.00
4/10/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Overweight	$44.00
4/9/2024	SM SM Energy	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$49.00 ➝ $54.00
4/5/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$58.00 ➝ $59.00
4/5/2024	SM SM Energy	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$51.00 ➝ $57.00
4/5/2024	VNOM Viper Energy	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$47.00 ➝ $52.00

(Data available from 4/19/2021 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	1.32	$8.69 per share	6.18	$32.34 per share	1.66
DEN Denbury	$1.48B	3.08	$10.43 per share	8.50	$30.77 per share	2.88
MUR Murphy Oil	$3.45B	2.00	$10.23 per share	4.42	$35.93 per share	1.26
SM SM Energy	$2.37B	2.34	$11.71 per share	4.10	$31.09 per share	1.54
VNOM Viper Energy	$827.70M	8.32	$1.99 per share	19.59	$16.16 per share	2.41

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	6.95	8.04	N/A	20.14%	17.57%	9.39%	5/7/2024 (Confirmed)
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	$4.22	10.71	6.98	N/A	19.12%	13.02%	7.06%	5/2/2024 (Confirmed)
SM SM Energy	$817.88M	$6.87	6.99	7.14	N/A	34.45%	20.74%	11.55%	4/25/2024 (Estimated)
VNOM Viper Energy	$200.09M	$2.70	14.41	20.81	N/A	24.17%	8.29%	6.24%	4/30/2024 (Confirmed)

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

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/7/2024	N/A	CRC California Resources	$0.61	N/A	-$0.61	N/A	N/A	N/A
5/2/2024	N/A	MUR Murphy Oil	$0.88	N/A	-$0.88	N/A	N/A	N/A
4/30/2024	N/A	VNOM Viper Energy	$0.35	N/A	-$0.35	N/A	N/A	N/A
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
1/25/2024	12/31/2023	MUR Murphy Oil	$1.00	$0.90	-$0.10	$1.05	$852.24 million	$844.20 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CRC California Resources	$1.24	2.31%	N/A	16.06%	3 Years
DEN Denbury	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MUR Murphy Oil	$1.20	2.65%	+20.74%	28.44%	3 Years
SM SM Energy	$0.72	1.50%	+210.72%	10.48%	1 Years
VNOM Viper Energy	$1.08	2.77%	+15.21%	40.00%	N/A

Latest SM, DEN, MUR, VNOM, and CRC 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
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
1/25/2024	MUR Murphy Oil	quarterly	$0.30	3.12%	2/16/2024	2/20/2024	3/4/2024

(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	0.89	0.82
SM SM Energy	0.44	1.45	1.45
VNOM Viper Energy	0.38	4.32	4.32

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	0.03%
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	68.74 million	Optionable
DEN Denbury	793	51.45 million	51.38 million	Not Optionable
MUR Murphy Oil	725	152.58 million	143.54 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

SM, DEN, MUR, VNOM, and CRC Headlines

Source	Headline
	Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC Buys 301,288 Shares of Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) marketbeat.com - April 15 at 5:36 AM
	Viper Energy: Upside Exposure To Oil Prices Should Boost Its 2024 Dividend seekingalpha.com - April 13 at 9:43 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Sees Large Growth in Short Interest americanbankingnews.com - April 12 at 5:12 AM
	Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Hits New 1-Year High at $40.59 americanbankingnews.com - April 12 at 4:06 AM
	Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Receives New Coverage from Analysts at Barclays americanbankingnews.com - April 11 at 5:50 AM
	Breaking Down Viper Energy: 4 Analysts Share Their Views markets.businessinsider.com - April 10 at 7:17 PM
	Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Reaches New 1-Year High at $40.59 marketbeat.com - April 10 at 10:44 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Shares Could Be 40% Below Their Intrinsic Value Estimate finance.yahoo.com - April 7 at 1:06 PM
	Truist Financial Increases Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Price Target to $52.00 marketbeat.com - April 5 at 2:19 PM
	3 Oil & Gas Stocks Poised to Continue Their Winning Streaks in 2024 zacks.com - April 5 at 11:21 AM
	Viper Energy (NASDAQ:VNOM) Reaches New 12-Month High at $38.84 marketbeat.com - April 4 at 3:06 PM
	SG Americas Securities LLC Invests $1.76 Million in Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) marketbeat.com - March 29 at 4:28 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Receives Average Rating of "Buy" from Analysts marketbeat.com - March 29 at 2:14 AM
	Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) Short Interest Down 50.7% in March marketbeat.com - March 28 at 8:34 AM
	CUSHING ASSET MANAGEMENT LP dba NXG INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Has $5.70 Million Position in Viper Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:VNOM) marketbeat.com - March 27 at 4:47 PM
	Viper Energy, Inc., a Subsidiary of Diamondback Energy, Inc., Schedules First Quarter 2024 Conference Call for May 1, 2024 globenewswire.com - March 25 at 4:15 PM
	Why Is Viper Energy (VNOM) Up 4.3% Since Last Earnings Report? zacks.com - March 21 at 12:36 PM
	VNOM Jun 2024 42.000 call finance.yahoo.com - March 18 at 8:33 AM
	VNOM Dec 2024 42.000 call finance.yahoo.com - March 18 at 12:44 AM
	VNOM Apr 2024 32.000 put finance.yahoo.com - March 18 at 12:44 AM
	VNOM Mar 2024 29.000 call finance.yahoo.com - March 14 at 1:23 PM
	How Is The Market Feeling About Viper Energy? benzinga.com - March 14 at 1:23 PM
	Viper Energy files to sell 98.66M shares of class A common stock for holders msn.com - March 6 at 6:37 PM
	Viper Energy Announces Pricing of Secondary Common Stock Offering by Diamondback Energy, Inc. globenewswire.com - March 5 at 9:58 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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