Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE:MUR)’s traded shares stood at 1.45 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.07. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $25.24, to imply an increase of 3.40% or $0.83 in intraday trading. The MUR share’s 52-week high remains $43.02, putting it -70.44% down since that peak but still an impressive 24.96% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $18.94.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Murphy Oil Corp (MUR), translating to a mean rating of 2.95. Of 8 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 1 analyst(s) give MUR a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 4 recommend it as a Buy.
Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE:MUR) trade information
After registering a 3.40% upside in the latest session, Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 12.18%, and 9.83% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -16.59%.
The extremes give us $27 and $37 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, MUR has been trading -46.59% off suggested target high and -6.97% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -17.32% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -40.07% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 10.04% annually.
MUR Dividends
Murphy Oil Corp has its next earnings report out in July. 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. Murphy Oil Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 1.25, with the share yield ticking at 4.95% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 17.28 million shares, or about 11.3596% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $712.79 million.
We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) shares. Going by data provided on Apr 30, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF holds roughly 4.44 shares. This is just over 3.11% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $111.96 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 4.35, or 3.05% of the shares, all valued at about 109.76 million.
