APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) trade information

Instantly APA was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -4.07%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The drop to weekly highs of 44.74 on Friday, 09/15/23 subtracted -1.21% to the stock’s daily price. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -9.04%, with the 5-day performance at -4.07% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) is -2.70% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.61 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.95 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $50.64, meaning bulls need an upside of 16.15% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, APA’s forecast low is $34.00 with $65.00 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -53.09% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 19.92% for it to hit the projected low.

APA Corporation (APA) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the APA Corporation share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 29.41% over the past 6 months, a -41.80% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -31.10%. Moreover, analysts have looked to lower expectations by upgrading its fiscal year 2023 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict current quarter revenue for APA Corporation will fall -47.70%, while the growth in revenue is estimated to hit -0.70% for the next quarter. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -25.30% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 7 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of $1.91 billion. 7 analysts are of the opinion that APA Corporation’s revenue for the quarter ending Dec 2023 will be $2.11 billion. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was $2.29 billion and $1.98 billion respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -16.30%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 6.80%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 24.40%. The 2023 estimates are for APA Corporation earnings to increase by 325.20%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -2.00% per year.

APA Dividends

APA Corporation is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report between October 31 and November 06. The 2.36% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.00. It is important to note, however, that the 2.36% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision.

APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.44% of APA Corporation shares while 82.62% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 82.98%. There are 82.62% institutions holding the APA Corporation stock share, with Vanguard Group Inc the top institutional holder. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held 12.93% of the shares, roughly 39.72 million APA shares worth $1.69 billion.

Blackrock Inc. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.91% or 24.29 million shares worth $1.03 billion as of Jun 29, 2023.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jun 29, 2023 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard/Windsor II. With 9.69 million shares estimated at $411.48 million under it, the former controlled 3.15% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard/Windsor II held about 2.74% of the shares, roughly 8.42 million shares worth around $357.31 million.