Murphy USA (MUSA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

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 twelve-month target prices for Murphy USA's shares. Their MUSA share price targets range from $280.00 to $470.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $408.60 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 15.2%.
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Murphy USA's stock was trading at $356.56 at the start of the year. Since then, MUSA shares have increased by 35.1% and is now trading at $481.67.
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Murphy USA saw a decline in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,100,000 shares, a decline of 16.0% from the May 15th total of 1,310,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 226,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.8 days. Approximately 5.8% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 7th 2024.
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Murphy USA Inc. (NYSE:MUSA) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 1st. The specialty retailer reported $3.12 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $4.09 by $0.97. The specialty retailer had revenue of $4.84 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.89 billion. Murphy USA had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 64.45% and a net margin of 2.43%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 4.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $4.80 EPS.

Murphy USA announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 9th. Investors of record on Monday, May 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.44 per share on Monday, June 3rd. This represents a $1.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.37%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 17th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.42.
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Murphy USA (NYSE:MUSA) pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.37%. The dividend payout ratio is 7.39%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MUSA will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.35% 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 Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT), Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), Argent Mid Cap ETF (AMID), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 GARP ETF (EWMC), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 GARP ETF (GRPM), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Growth ETF (RFG), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ) and ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM).

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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.39%), Cadence Bank (2.02%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (1.51%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.18%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (0.61%) and Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.53%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher A Click, Donald R Smith Jr, Jeanne Linder Phillips, Jennifer Bridges, R Andrew Clyde, Renee M Bacon, Robert J Chumley, Robert Madison Murphy, Rosemary Turner and Terry P Hatten.
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Shares of MUSA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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