Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES)’s traded shares stood at 0.86 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.63. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $142.77, to imply an increase of 1.16% or $1.63 in intraday trading. The HES share’s 52-week high remains $161.69, putting it -13.25% down since that peak but still an impressive 13.29% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $123.79. The company has a valuation of $44.16B, with an average of 2.04 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.95 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Hess Corporation (HES), translating to a mean rating of 2.18. Of 7 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give HES a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 4 recommend it as a Buy.
Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES) trade information
After registering a 1.16% upside in the latest session, Hess Corporation (HES) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 4.88%, and 5.92% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 7.34%. Short interest in Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES) saw shorts transact 11.08 million shares and set a 6.39 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $163 and $163 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, HES has been trading -14.17% off suggested target high and -14.17% from its likely low.
HES Dividends
Hess Corporation has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-29. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Hess Corporation has a forward dividend ratio of 1.94, with the share yield ticking at 1.36% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 1.33%.
Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES)’s Major holders
Hess Corporation insiders hold 8.81% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 78.13% of the shares at 85.68% float percentage. In total, 78.13% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 33.81 million shares (or 11.0182% of shares), all amounting to roughly $4.99 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 25.16 million shares, or about 8.1981% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $3.71 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Hess Corporation (HES) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 9.24 shares. This is just over 2.99% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.32 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 7.68, or 2.48% of the shares, all valued at about 1.1 billion.
