NYSE:COP - ConocoPhillips Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

ConocoPhillips announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 11th. Investors of record on Monday, July 23rd will be paid a dividend of $0.285 per share on Tuesday, September 4th. This represents a $1.14 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 20th. View ConocoPhillips' Dividend History.

ConocoPhillips declared that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, July 12th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $9,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 10.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 26th. The energy producer reported $1.09 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.08 by $0.01. The energy producer earned $9.24 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.79 billion. ConocoPhillips had a net margin of 13.26% and a return on equity of 10.26%. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.14 EPS. View ConocoPhillips' Earnings History.

ConocoPhillips is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for ConocoPhillips.

20 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for ConocoPhillips' stock. Their predictions range from $50.00 to $85.00. On average, they anticipate ConocoPhillips' stock price to reach $70.9444 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for ConocoPhillips.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ConocoPhillips in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for ConocoPhillips.

ConocoPhillips saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 12,369,886 shares, a drop of 22.7% from the July 13th total of 16,007,086 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 5,857,374 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View ConocoPhillips' Current Options Chain.

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Media coverage about COP stock has been trending positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. ConocoPhillips earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.25 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the energy producer an impact score of 46.56 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for ConocoPhillips.

ConocoPhillips' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.12%), FMR LLC (3.97%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.07%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.96%), Boston Partners (0.74%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.68%). Company insiders that own ConocoPhillips stock include Andrew D Lundquist, Charles E Bunch, Glenda Mae Schwarz, James D Mcmorran, Janet Langford Kelly and Jody Freeman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for ConocoPhillips.

COP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Macquarie Group Ltd., BlackRock Inc., Pzena Investment Management LLC, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Yacktman Asset Management LP and Legal & General Group Plc. Company insiders that have sold ConocoPhillips company stock in the last year include Andrew D Lundquist, Glenda Mae Schwarz, Janet Langford Kelly and Jody Freeman. View Insider Buying and Selling for ConocoPhillips.

COP stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Morgan Stanley, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Putnam Investments LLC, Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc., Point72 Asset Management L.P. and Ardevora Asset Management LLP. View Insider Buying and Selling for ConocoPhillips.

Shares of COP 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of COP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $69.77.

ConocoPhillips has a market capitalization of $83.60 billion and generates $32.58 billion in revenue each year. The energy producer earns $-855,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.60 on an earnings per share basis. ConocoPhillips employs 11,400 workers across the globe.

ConocoPhillips' mailing address is CONOCOPHILLIPS 600 NORTH DAIRY ASHFORD ROAD, HOUSTON TX, 77079. The energy producer can be reached via phone at 281-293-1000.