NYSE:BPBP Stock Price, Forecast & News

BP's stock was trading at $24.66 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BP stock has decreased by 3.7% and is now trading at $23.74.
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23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BP in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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BP plc (NYSE:BP) released its earnings results on Tuesday, August, 4th. The oil and gas exploration company reported ($1.98) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.37) by $1.61. The oil and gas exploration company earned $31.68 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $38.70 billion. BP had a negative net margin of 1.19% and a positive return on equity of 8.53%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 56.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.14 EPS.
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BP announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, April 28th. Stockholders 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 10.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 8th.
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23 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for BP's shares. Their forecasts range from $26.00 to $53.00. On average, they expect BP's share price to reach $35.36 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 49.0% from the stock's current price.
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News coverage about BP stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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 daily sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the oil and gas exploration company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.
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BP saw a decrease in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 9,470,000 shares, a decrease of 20.8% from the June 30th total of 11,960,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 10,950,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.9 days. Currently, 0.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to BP include Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B), China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP), Equinor ASA (EQNR), ConocoPhillips (COP), Phillips 66 (PSX), Suncor Energy (SU), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Valero Energy (VLO), Hess (HES), Repsol (REPYY), HollyFrontier (HFC), YPF (YPF) and CVR Energy (CVI).
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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), Chevron (CVX), Pfizer (PFE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

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

BP's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Raymond James & Associates (0.10%), Kahn Brothers Group Inc. DE (0.06%), Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. (0.03%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.03%), M&T Bank Corp (0.03%) and Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS (0.03%).

BP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Raymond James & Associates, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., MAI Capital Management, Community Trust & Investment Co., Fluent Financial LLC, Arkfeld Wealth Strategies L.L.C., and Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC.

BP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SG Americas Securities LLC, Klingenstein Fields & Co. LLC, Kahn Brothers Group Inc. DE, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Campbell Capital Management Inc., Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY, Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc., and Pacer Advisors Inc..

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 $23.74.

BP has a market capitalization of $80.16 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]