APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) has a beta value of 1.25 and has seen 10.14 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $6.56B, closed the last trade at $18.18 per share which meant it lost -$0.21 on the day or -1.14% during that session. The APA stock price is -83.77% off its 52-week high price of $33.41 and 25.3% above the 52-week low of $13.58. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 11.07 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 8.84 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that APA Corporation (APA) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.94. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 4 out of 14 have rated it as a Hold, with 9 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) trade information
Sporting -1.14% in the red in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the APA stock price touched $18.18 or saw a rise of 14.77%. Year-to-date, APA Corporation shares have moved -35.76%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -11.32%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) have changed 8.60%. Short interest in the company has seen 37.89 million shares shorted with days to cover at 4.99.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $23, which means that the shares’ value could jump 20.96% from current levels. The projected low price target is $20.0 while the price target rests at a high of $30.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -65.02% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -10.01% from current levels.
APA Corporation (APA) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -12.76% over the past 6 months.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -23.85% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -5.55%.
APA Dividends
APA Corporation is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-07 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.00 at a share yield of 5.50%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.4%.
APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.46% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 94.11% with a share float percentage of 94.55%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with APA Corporation having a total of 843.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 49.79 million shares worth more than $1.47 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 13.4199% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 32.12 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $945.67 million and represent 8.6582% of shares outstanding.
