NYSE:QEP - QEP Resources Stock Price, Price Target & More

QEP Resources trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "QEP."

QEP Resources announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, March 1st 2018, which allows the company to buyback $1,250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

QEP Resources Inc (NYSE:QEP) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April, 25th. The pipeline company reported ($0.20) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.19) by $0.01. The pipeline company earned $428.90 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $369.94 million. QEP Resources had a return on equity of 4.66% and a net margin of 8.51%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted ($0.14) EPS. View QEP Resources' Earnings History.

QEP Resources is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for QEP Resources.

15 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for QEP Resources' stock. Their predictions range from $9.00 to $19.00. On average, they expect QEP Resources' share price to reach $12.8833 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for QEP Resources.

Some companies that are related to QEP Resources include Cabot Oil & Gas (COG), Cimarex Energy (XEC), Parsley Energy (PE), WPX Energy (WPX), RSP Permian (RSPP), Antero Resources (AR), Energen (EGN), Murphy Oil (MUR), Newfield Exploration (NFX), Vermilion Energy (VET), Centennial Resource Development (CDEV), Whiting Petroleum (WLL), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Range Resources (RRC) and Oasis Petroleum (OAS).

Media headlines about QEP stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. QEP Resources earned a news impact score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the pipeline company an impact score of 44.28 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

QEP Resources' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.93%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (5.71%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (1.87%), Talara Capital Management LLC (1.70%), Millennium Management LLC (1.30%) and Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (1.27%). Company insiders that own QEP Resources stock include Charles B Stanley, David A Trice, Julie Dill, Phillips S Baker Jr and Richard J Doleshek. View Institutional Ownership Trends for QEP Resources.

QEP stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prudential Financial Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, Caymus Capital Partners L.P., Glen Harbor Capital Management LLC, Nokomis Capital L.L.C., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC and SG Americas Securities LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for QEP Resources.

QEP stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Talara Capital Management LLC, Hsbc Holdings PLC, UBS Group AG, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Seven Eight Capital LP, WINTON GROUP Ltd and JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Company insiders that have bought QEP Resources stock in the last two years include Charles B Stanley, David A Trice, Julie Dill, Phillips S Baker Jr and Richard J Doleshek. View Insider Buying and Selling for QEP Resources.

Shares of QEP 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 QEP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.37.

QEP Resources has a market capitalization of $2.80 billion and generates $1.62 billion in revenue each year. The pipeline company earns $269.30 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.77 on an earnings per share basis. QEP Resources employs 656 workers across the globe.

QEP Resources' mailing address is 1050 17TH STREET SUITE 800, DENVER CO, 80265. The pipeline company can be reached via phone at 303-672-6900 or via email at [email protected]