NYSE:WLLWhiting Petroleum Stock Price, Forecast & News

Whiting Petroleum's stock was trading at $0.8217 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WLL stock has decreased by 14.8% and is now trading at $0.6999. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Whiting Petroleum in the last year. There are currently 12 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Whiting Petroleum.

Whiting Petroleum is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Whiting Petroleum.

Whiting Petroleum Corp (NYSE:WLL) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 27th. The oil and gas exploration company reported ($0.22) EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.44) by $0.22. The oil and gas exploration company earned $380.60 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $375.97 million. Whiting Petroleum had a negative return on equity of 6.94% and a negative net margin of 266.24%. View Whiting Petroleum's earnings history.

Whiting Petroleum shares reverse split before market open 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.

25 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Whiting Petroleum's stock. Their forecasts range from $0.75 to $20.00. On average, they expect Whiting Petroleum's stock price to reach $8.81 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1,159.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Whiting Petroleum.

Headlines about WLL stock have been trending somewhat negative on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Whiting Petroleum earned a daily sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the oil and gas exploration company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutWhiting Petroleum.

Whiting Petroleum saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 37,250,000 shares, an increase of 6.9% from the April 30th total of 34,830,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 23,760,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Approximately 40.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Whiting Petroleum's Current Options Chain.

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

Whiting Petroleum's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (20.02%), BlackRock Inc. (15.23%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.36%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.35%), Invesco Ltd. (1.25%) and Quantitative Investment Management LLC (0.99%). Company insiders that own Whiting Petroleum stock include James E Catlin, Michael J Stevens, Peter Hagist, Philip Edward Doty, Rick A Mr Ross and William N Hahne. View institutional ownership trends for Whiting Petroleum.

WLL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, BlackRock Inc., Morgan Stanley, and Voloridge Investment Management LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Whiting Petroleum.

WLL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Two Sigma Advisers LP, Quantitative Investment Management LLC, APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., Jane Street Group LLC, Invesco Ltd., Legal & General Group Plc, and Teacher Retirement System of Texas. View insider buying and selling activity 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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of WLL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $0.70.

Whiting Petroleum has a market capitalization of $63.98 million and generates $1.57 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $-241,170,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.86) on an earnings per share basis. Whiting Petroleum employs 755 workers across the globe.

The official website for Whiting Petroleum is www.whiting.com.

Whiting Petroleum's mailing address is 1700 LINCOLN STREET SUITE 4700, DENVER CO, 80203. The oil and gas exploration company can be reached via phone at 303-837-1661 or via email at [email protected]