NYSE:BP - BP Stock Price, Forecast & News

BP trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BP."

BP announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 1st. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.615 per share on Friday, June 21st. This represents a $2.46 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 6.58%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 9th. View BP's Dividend History.

BP plc (NYSE:BP) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 30th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $1.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.86 by $0.29. The oil and gas exploration company earned $79.47 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $75.31 billion. BP had a return on equity of 10.67% and a net margin of 1.66%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 32.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.09 EPS. View BP's Earnings History.

BP is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for BP.

BP will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 4th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

13 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for BP's stock. Their forecasts range from $41.06 to $53.00. On average, they expect BP's share price to reach $47.05 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for BP.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BP in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for BP.

News stories about BP stock have trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BP earned a media sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the oil and gas exploration company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for BP.

BP saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,190,000 shares, a decline of 16.9% from the December 31st total of 5,040,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,360,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.6 days. Approximately 0.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View BP's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to BP include Exxon Mobil (XOM), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B), Chevron (CVX), China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP), ConocoPhillips (COP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), Suncor Energy (SU), Phillips 66 (PSX), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Valero Energy (VLO), Repsol (REPYY), Hess (HES), HollyFrontier (HFC), YPF (YPF) and CVR Energy (CVI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BP investors own include AT&T (T), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Verizon Communications (VZ), Bank of America (BAC), General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Chevron (CVX) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

BP's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Kahn Brothers Group Inc. DE (0.05%), Anchor Capital Advisors LLC (0.02%), Community Trust & Investment Co. (0.01%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.01%), SPX Equities Gestao de Recursos Ltda (0.01%) and Janney Capital Management LLC (0.01%).

BP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Greylin Investment Mangement Inc., JCIC Asset Management Inc., Janney Capital Management LLC, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Kahn Brothers Group Inc. DE, Cozad Asset Management Inc., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI and Barnett & Company Inc..

BP stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SPX Equities Gestao de Recursos Ltda, Arkfeld Wealth Strategies L.L.C., Bay Colony Advisory Group Inc d b a Bay Colony Advisors, Anchor Capital Advisors LLC, American Assets Investment Management LLC, First American Bank, Community Trust & Investment Co. and Fluent Financial LLC.

Shares of BP can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.41.

BP has a market capitalization of $127.03 billion and generates $303.74 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $9.38 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.80 on an earnings per share basis. BP employs 73,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About BP.

The official website for BP is http://www.bp.com/.

BP's mailing address is 1 ST JAMES`S SQUARE, LONDON X0, SW1Y 4PD. The oil and gas exploration company can be reached via phone at 44-20-7496-4000 or via email at [email protected]