NYSE:CLRContinental Resources Stock Price, Forecast & News

Continental Resources' stock was trading at $8.78 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CLR shares have increased by 95.4% and is now trading at $17.16. 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, 15 hold ratings and 6 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 Thomson Reuters' 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 net margin of 9.18% and a return on equity of 8.60%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 21.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.58 earnings per share. View Continental Resources' earnings history.

Continental Resources declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, February 21st. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 6th. View Continental Resources' dividend history.

Continental Resources's stock split on Thursday, September 11th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, August 18th 2014. The newly issued shares were issued 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 has authorized a stock repurchase program on Monday, June 3rd 2019, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 7.6% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Continental Resources' stock. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate Continental Resources' stock price to reach $21.04 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Continental Resources.

News coverage about CLR stock has trended negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Continental Resources earned a media sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the oil and natural gas company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Continental Resources.

Continental Resources saw a decline in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 14,660,000 shares, a decline of 26.7% from the June 15th total of 19,990,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,240,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Approximately 19.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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."

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One share of CLR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.16.

Continental Resources has a market capitalization of $6.27 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]