NYSE:CLRContinental Resources Stock Price, Forecast & News

Continental Resources' stock was trading at $8.78 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CLR stock has increased by 59.9% and is now trading at $14.04. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Continental Resources in the last year. There are currently 6 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Continental Resources.

Continental Resources is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, August 3rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Continental Resources.

Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR) announced its earnings results on Monday, May, 11th. The oil and natural gas company reported ($0.08) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.03) by $0.05. The oil and natural gas company had revenue of $880.80 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $843.57 million. Continental Resources had a return on equity of 8.60% and a net margin of 9.18%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 21.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.58 EPS. View Continental Resources' earnings history.

Continental Resources announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 7th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, February 21st. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 6th. View Continental Resources' dividend history.

Continental Resources's stock split on the morning of Thursday, September 11th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, August 18th 2014. The newly created shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, September 10th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Continental Resources stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Continental Resources announced that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Monday, June 3rd 2019, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 7.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

27 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Continental Resources' shares. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate Continental Resources' stock price to reach $19.87 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 41.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Continental Resources.

Press coverage about CLR stock has trended negative on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Continental Resources earned a media sentiment score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the oil and natural gas company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutContinental Resources.

Continental Resources saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 21,660,000 shares, an increase of 14.3% from the April 30th total of 18,950,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 7,320,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.0 days. Currently, 29.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Continental Resources' Current Options Chain.

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Continental Resources trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CLR."

Continental Resources' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (1.82%), State Street Corp (1.38%), Two Sigma Advisers LP (0.68%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.25%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.23%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.19%). Company insiders that own Continental Resources stock include Eric Spencer Eissenstat, Gary E Gould, Harold Hamm, Jack H Stark, John D Hart, John T Mcnabb II, Steven K Owen, Timothy Garth Taylor and William B Berry. View institutional ownership trends for Continental Resources.

CLR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., New York State Common Retirement Fund, and Alliancebernstein L.P.. Company insiders that have sold Continental Resources company stock in the last year include Eric Spencer Eissenstat, Harold Hamm, and Jack H Stark. View insider buying and selling activity for Continental Resources.

CLR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Two Sigma Advisers LP, State Street Corp, Caymus Capital Partners L.P., Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Aperio Group LLC, and Banque Pictet & Cie SA. Company insiders that have bought Continental Resources stock in the last two years include Harold Hamm, John D Hart, John T Mcnabb II, Steven K Owen, Timothy Garth Taylor, and William B Berry. View insider buying and selling activity for Continental Resources.

Shares of CLR 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 CLR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.04.

Continental Resources has a market capitalization of $5.13 billion and generates $4.63 billion in revenue each year. The oil and natural gas company earns $775.64 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.25 on an earnings per share basis. Continental Resources employs 1,260 workers across the globe.

The official website for Continental Resources is www.clr.com.

Continental Resources' mailing address is 20 NORTH BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY OK, 73102. The oil and natural gas company can be reached via phone at 405-234-9000 or via email at [email protected]