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 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.

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

Whiting Petroleum is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Whiting Petroleum.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Whiting Petroleum's shares. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $71.00. On average, they expect Whiting Petroleum's stock price to reach $44.36 in the next twelve months. 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 daily volume of 5,638,757 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.5 days. Currently, 15.5% of the company's stock are sold short.

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Media coverage about WLL stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Whiting Petroleum earned a coverage optimism score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the oil and gas exploration company an impact score of 46.47 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Whiting Petroleum's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 $50.82.

Whiting Petroleum has a market capitalization of $4.36 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]