NYSEAMERICAN:MCF - Contango Oil & Gas Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Contango Oil & Gas trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)AMERICAN under the ticker symbol "MCF."

Contango Oil & Gas (NYSEAMERICAN:MCF) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 9th. The oil and natural gas company reported ($0.19) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.18) by $0.01. The oil and natural gas company earned $18.45 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $17.42 million. View Contango Oil & Gas' Earnings History.

Contango Oil & Gas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, March 8th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Contango Oil & Gas.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Contango Oil & Gas' shares. Their predictions range from $4.00 to $7.00. On average, they expect Contango Oil & Gas' share price to reach $5.60 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 46.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Contango Oil & Gas.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Contango Oil & Gas in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Contango Oil & Gas.

Media stories about MCF stock have trended somewhat negative on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Contango Oil & Gas earned a coverage optimism score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the oil and natural gas company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Contango Oil & Gas saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,615,742 shares, an increase of 2.6% from the January 15th total of 1,575,202 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 82,905 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 19.5 days. Currently, 6.2% of the company's shares are short sold. View Contango Oil & Gas' Current Options Chain.

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Contango Oil & Gas' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.19%), Prescott Group Capital Management L.L.C. (4.88%), King Luther Capital Management Corp (4.79%), BlackRock Inc. (1.70%), Millennium Management LLC (0.82%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.69%). Company insiders that own Contango Oil & Gas stock include Allan D Keel, E Joseph Grady, Jay S Mengle, John C Goff and Sergio Castro. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Contango Oil & Gas.

MCF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and Acadian Asset Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Contango Oil & Gas.

MCF stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including King Luther Capital Management Corp, Prescott Group Capital Management L.L.C., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Northern Trust Corp, Two Sigma Advisers LP, California Public Employees Retirement System, Squarepoint Ops LLC and Mraz Amerine & Associates Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Contango Oil & Gas stock in the last two years include Allan D Keel, E Joseph Grady and John C Goff. View Insider Buying and Selling for Contango Oil & Gas.

Shares of MCF 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 MCF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $3.83.

Contango Oil & Gas has a market capitalization of $97.91 million. Contango Oil & Gas employs 63 workers across the globe.

The official website for Contango Oil & Gas is http://www.contango.com/.

Contango Oil & Gas' mailing address is 717 Texas St Ste 2900, HOUSTON, TX 77002-2836, United States. The oil and natural gas company can be reached via phone at +1-713-2367400.