Continental Resources Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CLR)

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

Continental Resources declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 3rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 7th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Thursday, November 21st. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.59%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 6th. View Continental Resources' Dividend History.

Continental Resources shares split before market open on Thursday, September 11th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, August 18th 2014. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell 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 of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Monday, June 3rd 2019, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 7.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August, 5th. The oil and natural gas company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.60 by $0.01. The oil and natural gas company earned $1.21 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.16 billion. Continental Resources had a return on equity of 15.09% and a net margin of 19.64%. Continental Resources's revenue for the quarter was up 6.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.73 earnings per share. View Continental Resources' Earnings History.

Continental Resources is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Continental Resources.

32 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Continental Resources' stock. Their predictions range from $7.00 to $88.00. On average, they expect Continental Resources' stock price to reach $54.7727 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 60.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Continental Resources.

32 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Continental Resources in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Continental Resources.

Press coverage about CLR stock has trended negative on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Continental Resources earned a coverage optimism score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the oil and natural gas company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Continental Resources.

Continental Resources saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,870,600 shares, an increase of 18.1% from the July 31st total of 4,124,400 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,440,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 5.7% of the company's stock are short sold. View Continental Resources' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Continental Resources investors own include CA (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Micron Technology (MU), NIC (EGOV), Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (OZM) and Transocean (Rig).

Continental Resources' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (2.35%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.26%), BlackRock Inc. (1.21%), D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. (0.90%), Worldquant Millennium Advisors LLC (0.27%) and Bank of America Corp DE (0.27%). Company insiders that own Continental Resources stock include Ellis L Mccain, Eric Spencer Eissenstat, Gary E Gould, Harold Hamm, Jack H Stark, John D Hart, John T Mcnabb II, Mark E Monroe and Steven K Owen. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Continental Resources.

CLR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Carlson Capital L P, BlackRock Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Korea Investment CORP, Bank of America Corp DE, Renaissance Technologies LLC and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Continental Resources.

CLR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Worldquant Millennium Advisors LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Caymus Capital Partners L.P. and Marshall Wace North America L.P.. Company insiders that have bought Continental Resources stock in the last two years include Harold Hamm and John T Mcnabb II. View Insider Buying and Selling 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 $34.12.

Continental Resources has a market capitalization of $12.78 billion and generates $4.71 billion in revenue each year. The oil and natural gas company earns $988.31 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.84 on an earnings per share basis. Continental Resources employs 1,221 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Continental Resources.

The official website for Continental Resources is http://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]