APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) has a beta value of 1.23 and has seen 1.35 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $6.89B, closed the recent trade at $19.09 per share which meant it lost -$0.38 on the day or -1.95% during that session. The APA stock price is -75.01% off its 52-week high price of $33.41 and 28.86% 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 5.99 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 7.82 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. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.56.
APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) trade information
Sporting -1.95% in the red today, 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 $19.09 or saw a rise of 7.64%. Year-to-date, APA Corporation shares have moved -35.92%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -6.88%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA) have changed -4.31%. Short interest in the company has seen 38.64 million shares shorted with days to cover at 5.27.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $22.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 15.16% from the levels at last check today.. 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 latest price level in today’s session is -57.15% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -4.77% from the levels at last check today..
APA Corporation (APA) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -19.38% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -11.53%.
8 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 2.03B for the current quarter. 8 have an estimated revenue figure of 2.04B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 2.79B and 2.53B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -27.32% for the current quarter and -11.53% for the next.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -23.32% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -6.16%.
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 5.24%. 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 93.93% with a share float percentage of 94.36%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with APA Corporation having a total of 837.0 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.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS-Vanguard Windsor II Fund and HARRIS ASSOCIATES INVESTMENT TRUST-Oakmark Fund . As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 5.19% shares in the company for having 18.76 shares of worth $355.59 million while later fund manager owns 14.38 shares of worth $272.58 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 3.98% of company’s outstanding stock.
