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

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

Murphy Oil announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, August 7th. Stockholders of record on Monday, August 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Tuesday, September 3rd. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.85%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 16th. View Murphy Oil's Dividend History.

Murphy Oil Co. (NYSE:MUR) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 8th. The oil and gas producer reported $0.21 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The oil and gas producer had revenue of $709 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $612.71 million. Murphy Oil had a net margin of 12.37% and a return on equity of 3.48%. The company's revenue was up 81.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.36 EPS. View Murphy Oil's Earnings History.

Murphy Oil is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Murphy Oil.

15 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Murphy Oil's stock. Their predictions range from $22.00 to $41.00. On average, they anticipate Murphy Oil's share price to reach $32.2308 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 56.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Murphy Oil.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Murphy Oil in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Murphy Oil.

Media coverage about MUR stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Murphy Oil earned a media sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the oil and gas producer a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Murphy Oil.

Murphy Oil saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totalling 21,340,900 shares, an increase of 10.0% from the July 15th total of 19,393,500 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,620,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.1 days. Approximately 13.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View Murphy Oil's Current Options Chain.

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Murphy Oil's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.60%), BlackRock Inc. (9.93%), BlackRock Inc. (9.93%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (2.47%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.58%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.39%). Company insiders that own Murphy Oil stock include Claiborne P Deming, Erik H Martin, Eugene T Coleman, Jean-Charles Potvin, John B Gardner, Kelli M Hammock, Kent Pearson, Robert Madison Murphy, 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 Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Prudential Financial Inc., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Murphy Oil company stock in the last year include John B Gardner, Kelli M Hammock, 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 Caymus Capital Partners L.P., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, KBC Group NV, Carlson Capital L P, First Trust Advisors LP, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., Robinson Value Management Ltd. and Wells Fargo & Company MN. Company insiders that have bought Murphy Oil stock in the last two years include Claiborne P Deming, Erik H Martin, Jean-Charles Potvin and Kent Pearson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Murphy Oil.

Shares of MUR 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 MUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.60.

Murphy Oil has a market capitalization of $3.34 billion and generates $2.57 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas producer earns $411.09 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.26 on an earnings per share basis. Murphy Oil employs 1,108 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Murphy Oil.

The official website for Murphy Oil is http://www.murphyoilcorp.com/.

Murphy Oil's mailing address is 300 PEACH STREET P.O. BOX 7000, EL DORADO AR, 71731. The oil and gas producer can be reached via phone at 870-862-6411 or via email at [email protected]