NYSE:BBL - BHP Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

BHP Group's stock was trading at $28.81 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BBL shares have increased by 8.9% and is now trading at $31.37. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BHP Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for BHP Group.

BHP Group declared a semi-annual dividend on Wednesday, February 19th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 6th will be given a dividend of $1.30 per share on Tuesday, March 24th. This represents a dividend yield of 6.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 5th. View BHP Group's dividend history.

News coverage about BBL stock has trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BHP Group earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the mining company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutBHP Group.

BHP Group saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 3,443,000 shares, an increase of 47.1% from the February 27th total of 2,340,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,540,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Currently, 0.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View BHP Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to BHP Group include Warrior Met Coal (HCC), CONSOL Coal Resources (CCR), Ramaco Resources (METC), Consol Energy (CEIX), Hallador Energy (HNRG), PARINGA RESOURC/S (PNRL), Foresight Energy (FELP), New Wei (WLTGQ) and Paringa Resources (PNGZF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BHP Group investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Intelsat (I), Fossil Group (FOSL), Associated British Foods (ABF), Chaarat Gold (CGH), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Apollo Global Management (APO), China Unicom (Hong Kong) (CHU), Ciena (CIEN) and BHP Group (BHP).

BHP Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BBL."

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One share of BBL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $31.37.

BHP Group has a market capitalization of $33.13 billion and generates $44.29 billion in revenue each year. The mining company earns $8.31 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.66 on an earnings per share basis. BHP Group employs 72,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about BHP Group.

The official website for BHP Group is http://www.bhp.com/.

BHP Group's mailing address is NOVA SOUTH 160 VICTORIA STREET, LONDON X0, SW1E 5LB. The mining company can be reached via phone at 44-20-7802-4054 or via email at [email protected]