NYSE:OXY - Occidental Petroleum Stock Price, Price Target & More

Occidental Petroleum trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "OXY."

Occidental Petroleum announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 3rd. Investors of record on Monday, June 11th will be given a dividend of $0.77 per share on Monday, July 16th. This represents a $3.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.73%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 8th. View Occidental Petroleum's Dividend History.

Occidental Petroleum Co. (NYSE:OXY) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 8th. The oil and gas producer reported $0.92 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.71 by $0.21. The oil and gas producer had revenue of $3.83 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.63 billion. Occidental Petroleum had a net margin of 13.47% and a return on equity of 6.15%. Occidental Petroleum's revenue for the quarter was up 28.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.15 earnings per share. View Occidental Petroleum's Earnings History.

Occidental Petroleum is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Occidental Petroleum.

18 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Occidental Petroleum's shares. Their predictions range from $47.00 to $102.00. On average, they anticipate Occidental Petroleum's share price to reach $80.2143 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Occidental Petroleum.

Occidental Petroleum saw a drop in short interest during the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,978,243 shares, a drop of 28.2% from the May 15th total of 12,504,639 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,277,706 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.2% of the shares of the company are sold short.

Some companies that are related to Occidental Petroleum include Total (TOT), PetroChina (PTR), CNOOC (CEO), EOG Resources (EOG), ENI (E), PETROLEO BRASIL/ADR (PBR), PETROLEO BRASIL/RED PFD sh (PBR.A), Ecopetrol (EC), Canadian Natural Resource (CNQ), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), The Hong Kong and China Gas (HOKCY), WOODSIDE Pet Lt/ADR (WOPEY), Sasol (SSL) and Continental Resources (CLR).

Media coverage about OXY stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Occidental Petroleum earned a coverage optimism score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the oil and gas producer an impact score of 46.76 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Occidental Petroleum's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.71%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (2.46%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.36%), Northern Trust Corp (1.28%), Epoch Investment Partners Inc. (1.28%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.24%). Company insiders that own Occidental Petroleum stock include Cedric W Burgher, Stephen I Chazen, Vicki A Hollub and William R Klesse. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Occidental Petroleum.

OXY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., First Pacific Advisors LLC, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Swiss National Bank, American Century Companies Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Federated Investors Inc. PA and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Occidental Petroleum.

OXY stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PNC Financial Services Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., MUFG Securities EMEA plc, Natixis, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and Stevens Capital Management LP. Company insiders that have bought Occidental Petroleum stock in the last two years include Cedric W Burgher, Vicki A Hollub and William R Klesse. View Insider Buying and Selling for Occidental Petroleum.

Shares of OXY 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 OXY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $82.68.

Occidental Petroleum has a market capitalization of $63.81 billion and generates $13.27 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas producer earns $1.31 billion in net income (profit) each year or $0.89 on an earnings per share basis. Occidental Petroleum employs 11,000 workers across the globe.

Occidental Petroleum's mailing address is 5 GREENWAY PLAZA SUITE 110, HOUSTON TX, 77046. The oil and gas producer can be reached via phone at 713-215-7000 or via email at [email protected]