Cenovus Energy Inc (NYSE: CVE) Disappoints Wall Street With -2.40% Stock Price Drop

In the last trading session, 9.59 million Cenovus Energy Inc (NYSE:CVE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.08. With the company’s per share price at $16.24 changed hands at -$0.4 or -2.40% during last session, the market valuation stood at $30.14B. CVE’s last price was a discount, traded about -34.17% off its 52-week high of $21.79. The share price had its 52-week low at $14.62, which suggests the last value was 9.98% up since then. When we look at Cenovus Energy Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 7.17 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.01 million.

Analysts gave the Cenovus Energy Inc (CVE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.11. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended CVE as a Hold, 6 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Cenovus Energy Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.6.

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Cenovus Energy Inc (NYSE:CVE) trade information

Instantly CVE was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -9.63%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -1.98%, with the 5-day performance at -9.63% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Cenovus Energy Inc (NYSE:CVE) is -11.79% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 12.39 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.46 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 18.3, meaning bulls need an upside of 11.26% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, CVE’s forecast low is 11.538339185 with 19.89368825 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -22.5% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 28.95% for it to hit the projected low.

Cenovus Energy Inc (CVE) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Cenovus Energy Inc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -8.36% over the past 6 months, a 17.83% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 2.10%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 9.30% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 2 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 10.05B. 2 analysts are of the opinion that Cenovus Energy Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 9.93B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 11.54B and 9.61B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -12.90%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 3.40%.

The 2024 estimates are for Cenovus Energy Inc earnings to increase by 23.34%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 24.00% per year.

CVE Dividends

Cenovus Energy Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in October. The 2.72% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.44. It is important to note, however, that the 2.72% 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. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.69 per year.

Cenovus Energy Inc (NYSE:CVE)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 31.71% of Cenovus Energy Inc shares while 53.96% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 79.01%. There are 53.96% institutions holding the Cenovus Energy Inc stock share, with CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 6.715% of the shares, roughly 125.42 million CVE shares worth $2.47 billion.

CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 4.7355% or 88.45 million shares worth $1.74 billion as of 2024-06-30.