NYSE:MUR - Murphy Oil Stock Price, Forecast & News

Murphy Oil trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MUR."

Murphy Oil declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 5th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, February 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Monday, March 2nd. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 14th. View Murphy Oil's Dividend History.

Murphy Oil Co. (NYSE:MUR) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The oil and gas producer reported $0.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.17 by $0.01. The oil and gas producer had revenue of $757 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $759.75 million. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 9.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.31 EPS. View Murphy Oil's Earnings History.

Murphy Oil is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Murphy Oil.

14 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Murphy Oil's stock. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect Murphy Oil's stock price to reach $30.42 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 37.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Murphy Oil.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Murphy Oil in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Murphy Oil.

Press coverage about MUR stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Murphy Oil earned a coverage optimism score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the oil and gas producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Murphy Oil.

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Murphy Oil's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (9.73%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (8.89%), State Street Corp (3.91%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (3.13%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (1.61%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.61%). Company insiders that own Murphy Oil stock include Barry FR Jeffery, Christopher D Hulse, Claiborne P Deming, John B Gardner, Kelli M Hammock, Thomas J Mireles and Walentin Mirosh. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Murphy Oil.

MUR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, South Dakota Investment Council, Rafferty Asset Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, KBC Group NV, Credit Suisse AG and Guggenheim Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Murphy Oil company stock in the last year include Barry FR Jeffery, Christopher D Hulse, John B Gardner, Thomas J Mireles and Walentin Mirosh. View Insider Buying and Selling for Murphy Oil.

MUR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Poplar Forest Capital LLC, Foundry Partners LLC, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., State Street Corp, Victory Capital Management Inc. and Teacher Retirement System of Texas. View Insider Buying and Selling for Murphy Oil.

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One share of MUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $22.06.