NYSE:WLL - Whiting Petroleum Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Shares of Whiting Petroleum 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 closing bell 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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 5th. The oil and gas exploration company reported ($0.38) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.08) by $0.30. The oil and gas exploration company earned $372.89 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $405.25 million. Whiting Petroleum had a negative return on equity of 1.90% and a net margin of 6.62%. The business's revenue was down 34.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.92 earnings per share. View Whiting Petroleum's Earnings History.

Whiting Petroleum is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Whiting Petroleum.

Whiting Petroleum will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Whiting Petroleum's stock. Their forecasts range from $1.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate Whiting Petroleum's share price to reach $11.94 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 371.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Whiting Petroleum.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Whiting Petroleum in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 15 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Whiting Petroleum.

Media coverage about WLL stock has trended very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Whiting Petroleum earned a news sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories 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 impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Whiting Petroleum.

Whiting Petroleum saw a drop in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 31,270,000 shares, a drop of 11.1% from the January 15th total of 35,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,830,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.5 days. Approximately 34.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Whiting Petroleum's Current Options Chain.

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Whiting Petroleum's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (8.73%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (5.46%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.55%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.42%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.27%) and Investment Counselors of Maryland LLC (0.72%). Company insiders that own Whiting Petroleum stock include David M Seery, 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 Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd., Prudential Financial Inc., UBS Group AG, Royce & Associates LP, Geode Capital Management LLC, X Square Capital LLC and Arizona State Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Whiting Petroleum company stock in the last year include Peter Hagist and Philip Edward Doty. View Insider Buying and Selling for Whiting Petroleum.

WLL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Oxford Asset Management LLP, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Creative Planning, Caymus Capital Partners L.P., FMR LLC and Great West Life Assurance Co. Can. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WLL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.53.

Whiting Petroleum has a market capitalization of $230.99 million and generates $2.08 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas exploration company earns $342.49 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.18 on an earnings per share basis. Whiting Petroleum employs 755 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Whiting Petroleum.

The official website for Whiting Petroleum is http://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]