NYSE:BPBP Stock Price, Forecast & News

BP's stock was trading at $24.66 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BP shares have decreased by 8.9% and is now trading at $22.46. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BP in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for BP.

BP is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for BP.

BP will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, August 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.

BP plc (NYSE:BP) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 28th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.24 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.28 by $0.04. The oil and gas exploration company earned $59.65 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $56.89 billion. BP had a positive return on equity of 8.53% and a negative net margin of 1.19%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 10.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.12 EPS. View BP's earnings history.

BP declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 28th. Investors of record on Monday, May 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.625 per share on Friday, June 19th. This represents a $2.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 11.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 8th. View BP's dividend history.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for BP's shares. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $53.00. On average, they anticipate BP's stock price to reach $39.08 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 74.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for BP.

Headlines about BP stock have been trending somewhat negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie. The research firm 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 negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. BP earned a daily sentiment score of -1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the oil and gas exploration company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about BP.

BP saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 11,470,000 shares, an increase of 13.1% from the June 15th total of 10,140,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 15,220,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.8 days. Approximately 0.4% of the company's stock are short sold. View BP's Current Options Chain.

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

BP's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.03%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.01%), Campbell Capital Management Inc. (0.01%), Private Asset Management Inc. (0.01%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.00%) and Stolper Co (0.00%).

BP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Park National Corp OH, Fulton Bank N. A., Xcel Wealth Management LLC, Gradient Investments LLC, Private Asset Management Inc., and Investment Counsel Inc..

BP stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell Capital Management Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Canandaigua National Corp, KG&L Capital Management LLC, Hudson Valley Investment Advisors Inc. ADV, Arden Trust Co, Tsfg LLC, and Private Trust Co. NA.

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 $22.46.

BP has a market capitalization of $75.84 billion and generates $282.62 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $4.03 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.95 on an earnings per share basis. BP employs 70,100 workers across the globe.

The official website for BP is 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 44-0-20-7496-5311 or via email at [email protected]