Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY) Declines -24.17% In 2025; Are Investors Attracted By Its $40.27 Price?

In recent trading session, Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY) saw 2.27 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.85. Company’s recent per share price level of $40.27 trading at $0.44 or 1.10% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $37.84B. That most recent trading price of OXY’s stock is at a discount of -69.93% from its 52-week high price of $68.43 and is indicating a premium of 13.63% from its 52-week low price of $34.78. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 15.8 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 13.38 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.65. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 17 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 11 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.75 in the current quarter.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 1.10%, in the last five days OXY remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $40.27 price level, adding 1.95% to its value on the day. Occidental Petroleum Corp’s shares saw a change of -18.50% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.73% in past 5-day. Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY) showed a performance of -17.83% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 46.67 million shares which calculate 3.79 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 54 to the stock, which implies a rise of 25.43% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 48 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 58. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -19.2% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -19.2% for stock’s current value.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 2.28% from the last financial year’s standing.

9 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 6.9B for the same. And 9 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 6.66B in the next quarter. Company posted 6.01B and 6.88B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -24.17% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 3.91%.

OXY Dividends

Occidental Petroleum Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-17 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.23%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.90 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.1%.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 28.50% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 49.37 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 69.05%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 49.37% institutions for Occidental Petroleum Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC is the top institutional holder at OXY for having 255.28 million shares of worth $16.09 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 28.5614 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is DODGE & COX, which was holding about 78.36 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.7672 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $4.94 billion.

On the other hand, Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox Stock Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 47.77 shares of worth $1.93 billion or 5.08% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 20.58 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $830.33 million in the company or a holder of 2.19% of company’s stock.