Murphy USA Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:MUSA)

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Murphy USA in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" MUSA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MUSA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Murphy USA's stock. Their MUSA share price targets range from $280.00 to $410.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $348.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.7%.
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Murphy USA's stock was trading at $279.54 at the start of the year. Since then, MUSA stock has increased by 26.7% and is now trading at $354.06.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 7th 2024.
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Murphy USA Inc. (NYSE:MUSA) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 1st. The specialty retailer reported $7.69 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $6.08 by $1.61. The specialty retailer had revenue of $5.80 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.83 billion. Murphy USA had a net margin of 2.40% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 71.06%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 6.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $9.28 earnings per share.

Murphy USA announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 26th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 3rd. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.39.
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Murphy USA (NYSE:MUSA) pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.46%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 6.91%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MUSA will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.87% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Murphy USA (NYSE:MUSA) stock in their portfolio include Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Growth ETF (RFG), iShares MSCI USA Small-Cap Min Vol Factor ETF (SMMV), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ), First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX Fund (FXD), Invesco S&P MidCap Momentum ETF (XMMO) and iShares Factors US Growth Style ETF (STLG).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Murphy USA investors own include American International Group (AIG), NVIDIA (NVDA), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), General Electric (GE), Energy Transfer (ET), Broadcom (AVGO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS), International Paper (IP) and Pfizer (PFE).

Murphy USA's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (5.08%), River Road Asset Management LLC (2.02%), Cadence Bank (1.98%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (1.93%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (1.81%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.50%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher A Click, Donald R Smith Jr, Jeanne Linder Phillips, Jennifer Bridges, John A Moore, R Andrew Clyde, Renee M Bacon, Robert J Chumley, Robert Madison Murphy and Terry P Hatten.
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