NYSE:PTR - PetroChina Stock Price, Forecast & News

PetroChina trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PTR."

PetroChina announced a special dividend on Thursday, March 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.4059 per share on Monday, August 12th. This represents a yield of 2.85%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, June 19th. This is a positive change from PetroChina's previous special dividend of $0.32. View PetroChina's Dividend History.

PetroChina is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for PetroChina.

7 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for PetroChina's stock. Their forecasts range from $57.45 to $74.00. On average, they expect PetroChina's stock price to reach $65.73 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 51.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PetroChina.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PetroChina in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for PetroChina.

Press coverage about PTR stock has trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PetroChina earned a coverage optimism score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for PetroChina.

PetroChina saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 420,200 shares, an increase of 20.1% from the January 15th total of 349,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 99,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.2 days. Currently, 0.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View PetroChina's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to PetroChina include Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A), Total (TOT), PETROLEO BRASIL/ADR (PBR), PETROLEO BRASIL/S (PBR.A), CNOOC (CEO), ENI (E), EOG Resources (EOG), Ecopetrol (EC), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ), The Hong Kong and China Gas (HOKCY), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Rwe Ag Sp (RWEOY), Encana (ECA) and WOODSIDE PET LT/ADR (WOPEY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PetroChina investors own include Baidu (BIDU), Exxon Mobil (XOM), ABB (ABB), Intel (INTC), Bank of America (BAC), General Electric (GE), Starbucks (SBUX), Chevron (CVX), China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC).

PetroChina's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.07%), Marshall Wace North America L.P. (0.01%), Credit Suisse AG (0.00%), Marshall Wace LLP (0.00%), CI Investments Inc. (0.00%) and Jane Street Group LLC (0.00%).

PTR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Credit Suisse AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Marshall Wace North America L.P., Brandes Investment Partners LP, Cadence Capital Management LLC, Bank of Montreal Can and Castleark Management LLC.

PTR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Bank of America Corp DE, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Raymond James & Associates, First Trust Advisors LP, Ellington Management Group LLC and CI Investments Inc..

Shares of PTR 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 PTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $43.54.

PetroChina has a market capitalization of $79.69 billion and generates $348.77 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $7.95 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.30 on an earnings per share basis. PetroChina employs 476,223 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About PetroChina.

The official website for PetroChina is http://www.petrochina.com.cn/.

PetroChina's mailing address is 9 DONGZHIMEN NORTH STREET DONGCHENG DISTRICT, BEIJING F4, 100007. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at 86-10-5998-6270 or via email at [email protected]