Dorchester Minerals (DMLP) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Dorchester Minerals, L.P. (NASDAQ:DMLP) is a publicly traded energy partnership that owns and manages mineral, royalty, overriding royalty, and net profits interests in oil and natural gas properties. Rather than operating wells directly, the company generally receives payments from exploration and production companies that develop and produce hydrocarbons from its properties.

The partnership’s assets are located across several major U.S. oil and gas regions, including the Permian Basin, the Haynesville and other Gulf Coast areas, the Anadarko Basin, and the Rocky Mountain region. Its interests may provide exposure to oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids production while allowing operators to fund drilling and development activities.

Dorchester Minerals traces its history to the early 1980s and became a publicly traded master limited partnership in 2003. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and focuses on managing its existing mineral and royalty portfolio, acquiring additional interests when appropriate, and returning cash generated from its assets to unitholders through partnership distributions.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $27.26 to $28.22
• 50-Day Range: $27.81 to $30.69
• 52-Week Range: $20.85 to $31.08
• Volume: 215,928 shs
• Average Volume: 162,034 shs
• Market Capitalization: $1.34 billion
• P/E Ratio: 15.49
• Dividend Yield: 12.95%
• Price Target: N/A
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Dorchester Minerals Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Dorchester Minerals scored higher than 39% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 199th out of 244 stocks in the energy sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.2 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Dorchester Minerals has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.00, and is based on no strong buy ratings, no buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Dorchester Minerals has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Dorchester Minerals is 15.49, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 26.76.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Dorchester Minerals is 15.49, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Energy sector average P/E ratio of about 21.91.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Dorchester Minerals has a P/B Ratio of 4.31. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

0.96% of the float of Dorchester Minerals has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Dorchester Minerals has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 6.17.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Dorchester Minerals has recently increased by 19.73%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Leadership

Dorchester Minerals is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 12.51%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend Growth

Dorchester Minerals does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Dorchester Minerals is 200.57%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.7 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.25

News Sentiment

Dorchester Minerals has a news sentiment score of 0.25. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.58 average news sentiment score of Energy companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 3 news articles for Dorchester Minerals this week, compared to 2 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 3 people have searched for DMLP on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of 0% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

3 people have added Dorchester Minerals to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 50% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Net Insider Buying

Over the last three months, insiders have purchased a net $147,075.00 in company stock, which represents 0.0110% of the company's market cap.

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Dorchester Minerals insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought $147,075.00 in company stock and sold $0.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

5.90% of the stock of Dorchester Minerals is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

19.21% of the stock of Dorchester Minerals is held by institutions.

Company Calendar

• Record date for 8/13 Dividend: 8/03/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 8/13 Dividend: 8/03/2026
• Last Earnings: 8/06/2026
• Dividend Payable: 8/13/2026
• Record date for 11/12 Dividend: 11/02/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 11/12 Dividend: 11/02/2026
• Today: 11/05/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 11/05/2026
• Dividend Payable: 11/12/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Energy
• Industry: Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels
• Sub-Industry: Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:DMLP
• CIK: 1172358
• Web: www.dmlp.net
• Phone: (214) 559-0300
• Fax: 302-655-5049
• Employees: 26
• Year Founded: 2003

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $1.76
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 15.49
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $55.25 million
• Net Margins: 45.45%
• Pretax Margin: 45.45%
• Return on Equity: 28.43%
• Return on Assets: 27.83%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: N/A
• Current Ratio: 13.85
• Quick Ratio: 13.85

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $152.83 million
• Price / Sales: 8.76
• Cash Flow: $2.48 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 10.99
• Book Value: $6.33 per share
• Price / Book: 4.31

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 49,090,000
• Free Float: 46,195,000
• Market Cap: $1.34 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.65