NYSE:BP - BP Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

BP announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 2nd. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 11th will be given a dividend of $0.60 per share on Friday, June 22nd. This represents a $2.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 10th. View BP's Dividend History.

BP (NYSE:BP) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.78 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.11. The oil and gas exploration company earned $68.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $69.40 billion. BP had a return on equity of 7.22% and a net margin of 1.71%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 22.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.08 EPS. View BP's Earnings History.

BP is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for BP.

15 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for BP's shares. Their forecasts range from $34.90 to $54.00. On average, they anticipate BP's share price to reach $43.75 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for BP.

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

Press coverage about BP stock has been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. BP earned a daily sentiment score of 0.04 on Accern's scale. They also gave press coverage about the oil and gas exploration company an impact score of 44.89 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

BP's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.99%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.64%), Franklin Resources Inc. (0.36%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.16%), Sound Shore Management Inc. CT (0.14%) and BlackRock Inc. (0.13%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for BP.

BP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., BlackRock Inc., Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Federated Investors Inc. PA, Pzena Investment Management LLC, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and Mondrian Investment Partners LTD. View Insider Buying and Selling for BP.

BP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Sound Shore Management Inc. CT, Global Financial Private Capital LLC, LPL Financial LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Sei Investments Co.. View Insider Buying and Selling for BP.

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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.76.

BP has a market capitalization of $150.09 billion and generates $244.58 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $3.39 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.88 on an earnings per share basis. BP employs 74,500 workers across the globe.

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]