Diamondback Energy - FANG Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Diamondback Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings, 14 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" FANG shares.
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18 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Diamondback Energy's stock. Their FANG share price forecasts range from $143.00 to $214.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $181.85 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.2% from the stock's current price.
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Diamondback Energy's stock was trading at $107.85 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, FANG shares have increased by 35.8% and is now trading at $146.45.
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Diamondback Energy saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 12,270,000 shares, an increase of 26.4% from the October 31st total of 9,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,490,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.9 days. Currently, 7.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 28th 2023.
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Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:FANG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Sunday, October, 31st. The oil and natural gas company reported $2.94 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.81 by $0.13. The oil and natural gas company earned $1.91 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.48 billion. Diamondback Energy had a net margin of 45.47% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 28.49%. Diamondback Energy's revenue for the quarter was up 165.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.62 EPS.
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Diamondback Energy announced a None dividend on Monday, November 7th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 17th will be paid a dividend of $2.26 per share on Friday, November 25th. This represents a dividend yield of 4.7%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 16th.
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Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ:FANG) pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.09%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 12.22%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FANG will have a dividend payout ratio of 11.55% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Diamondback Energy announced that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Monday, August 1st 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase $4,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 17.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

26 employees have rated Diamondback Energy Chief Executive Officer Travis D. Stice on Glassdoor.com. Travis D. Stice has an approval rating of 96% among the company's employees. This puts Travis D. Stice in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 66.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Diamondback Energy to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Diamondback Energy investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Intel (INTC), Tesla (TSLA), Walt Disney (DIS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Boeing (BA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Netflix (NFLX).

Diamondback Energy trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FANG."

Diamondback Energy's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.37%), BlackRock Inc. (7.49%), State Street Corp (6.55%), Boston Partners (1.95%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.55%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (1.33%). Insiders that own company stock include Daniel N Wesson, Hof Matthew Kaes Van't, Michael P Cross, Russell Pantermuehl, Steven E West, Teresa L Dick, Thomas F Hawkins and Travis D Stice.
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One share of FANG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $146.45.

Diamondback Energy (NASDAQ:FANG) has a market capitalization of $25.78 billion and generates $6.80 billion in revenue each year. The oil and natural gas company earns $2.18 billion in net income (profit) each year or $24.55 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 870 workers across the globe.

Diamondback Energy's mailing address is 500 West Texas Suite 1200, Midland TX, 79701. The official website for the company is www.diamondbackenergy.com. The oil and natural gas company can be reached via phone at (432) 221-7400 or via email at ir@diamondbackenergy.com.