On Friday, Murphy USA Inc (NYSE: MUSA) was 1.04% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $439.30. A 52-week range for MUSA has been $424.02 – $561.08.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 11.06% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 0.12%. With a float of $17.93 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $19.76 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 17200 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 5.84%, operating margin of 3.64%, and the pretax margin is 3.17%.
Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Murphy USA Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Murphy USA Inc is 9.26%, while institutional ownership is 86.49%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 05 ’25, was worth 360,487. In this transaction Director of this company sold 797 shares at a rate of $452.31, taking the stock ownership to the 2,349 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 05 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 797 for $452.31, making the entire transaction worth $360,487.
Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 0.12% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.02% during the next five years compared to 37.76% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Murphy USA Inc (NYSE: MUSA) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.39. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.44. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 23.68.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 23.72, a number that is poised to hit 7.00 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 27.93 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Murphy USA Inc (MUSA)
Murphy USA Inc (NYSE: MUSA) saw its 5-day average volume 0.27 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 0.27 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 35.71%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 14.40.
During the past 100 days, Murphy USA Inc’s (MUSA) raw stochastic average was set at 16.10%, which indicates a significant decrease from 18.37% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 57.85% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 34.43% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $472.10, while its 200-day Moving Average is $493.73. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $450.52 in the near term. At $457.17, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $463.62. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $437.42, it is likely to go to the next support level at $430.97. The third support level lies at $424.32 if the price breaches the second support level.
Murphy USA Inc (NYSE: MUSA) Key Stats
There are 19,762K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 8.77 billion. As of now, sales total 20,244 M while income totals 502,500 K. Its latest quarter income was 4,525 M while its last quarter net income were 53,200 K.
