In recent trading session, APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) saw 10.69 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.28. Company’s recent per share price level of $17.37 trading at -$0.8 or -4.40% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $6.27B. That most recent trading price of APA’s stock is at a discount of -92.34% from its 52-week high price of $33.41 and is indicating a premium of 21.82% from its 52-week low price of $13.58. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 8.62 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 9.53 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For APA Corporation (APA), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.79. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 14 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 9 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.59 in the current quarter.
APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -4.40%, in the last five days APA remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 05/13/25 when the stock touched $17.37 price level, adding 7.26% to its value on the day. APA Corporation’s shares saw a change of -24.77% in year-to-date performance and have moved 7.35% in past 5-day. APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) showed a performance of 16.66% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 36.75 million shares which calculate 3.5 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 23 to the stock, which implies a rise of 24.48% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 20 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 30. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -15.14% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -15.14% for stock’s current value.
APA Corporation (APA) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -16.10% from the last financial year’s standing.
7 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 1.93B for the same. And 7 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 1.93B in the next quarter. Company posted 2.79B and 2.53B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -24.97% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -2.89%.
APA Dividends
APA Corporation is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-06 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 5.76%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.00 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.43%.
APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.45% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 91.92 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 92.34%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 91.92% institutions for APA Corporation that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at APA for having 49.79 million shares of worth $1.47 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 13.4199 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 32.12 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.6582 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $945.67 million.
On the other hand, VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS-Vanguard Windsor II Fund and HARRIS ASSOCIATES INVESTMENT TRUST-Oakmark Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 18.76 shares of worth $327.82 million or 5.19% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 13.58 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $237.33 million in the company or a holder of 3.76% of company’s stock.
