NYSE:WLL - Whiting Petroleum Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Whiting Petroleum's stock reverse split on Thursday, November 9th 2017. The 1-4 reverse split was announced on Wednesday, November 8th 2017. The number of shares owned by shareholders was adjusted after the market closes on Wednesday, November 8th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Whiting Petroleum stock prior to the reverse split would have 25 shares after the split.

Whiting Petroleum Corp (NYSE:WLL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April, 30th. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.92 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.70. The oil and gas exploration company had revenue of $515.10 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $476.68 million. Whiting Petroleum had a negative net margin of 69.88% and a negative return on equity of 1.08%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 38.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted ($0.15) EPS. View Whiting Petroleum's Earnings History.

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

28 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Whiting Petroleum's stock. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $71.00. On average, they expect Whiting Petroleum's stock price to reach $44.9520 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Whiting Petroleum.

Whiting Petroleum saw a decline in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 14,144,946 shares, a decline of 19.3% from the April 30th total of 17,530,057 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,638,757 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 15.5% of the company's shares are sold short.

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Headlines about WLL stock have been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Whiting Petroleum earned a news sentiment score of 0.20 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the oil and gas exploration company an impact score of 45.05 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

Whiting Petroleum's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Barings LLC (16.50%), FMR LLC (12.61%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.33%), Fine Capital Partners L.P. (5.16%), Millennium Management LLC (2.34%) and Earnest Partners LLC (1.34%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Whiting Petroleum.

WLL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fine Capital Partners L.P., UBS Group AG, Caymus Capital Partners L.P., BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA, Legal & General Group Plc, Royal Bank of Canada, Teacher Retirement System of Texas and Guggenheim Capital LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Whiting Petroleum.

WLL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barings LLC, Earnest Partners LLC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Millennium Management LLC, New York State Common Retirement Fund, Barometer Capital Management Inc., Penn Capital Management Co. Inc. and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Whiting Petroleum.

Shares of WLL 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 WLL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.78.

Whiting Petroleum has a market capitalization of $4.25 billion and generates $1.48 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $-1,237,640,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.31) on an earnings per share basis. Whiting Petroleum employs 830 workers across the globe.

Whiting Petroleum's mailing address is 1700 BROADWAY SUITE 2300, DENVER CO, 80290. The oil and gas exploration company can be reached via phone at 303-837-1661 or via email at [email protected]