Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) kicked off on Tuesday, up 5.73% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $22.5. Over the past 52 weeks, MUR has traded in a range of $18.94-$43.02.
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Annual sales at Energy sector company slipped by -17.32% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -40.57%. With a float of $133.21 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $142.72 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 750 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 30.32%, operating margin of 12.63%, and the pretax margin is 18.81%.
Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Oil & Gas E&P Industry. The insider ownership of Murphy Oil Corp is 6.66%, while institutional ownership is 92.78%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 04 ’25, was worth 319,376. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 05 ’25, when Company’s Director bought 10,000 for $23.39, making the entire transaction worth $233,947. This insider now owns 292,012 shares in total.
Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -40.57% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.88% during the next five years compared to -17.32% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Murphy Oil Corp’s (MUR) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.69. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.17. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 5.64.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.61, a number that is poised to hit 0.22 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.58 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Murphy Oil Corp (MUR)
Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) saw its 5-day average volume 2.62 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 3.08 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 19.78%.
During the past 100 days, Murphy Oil Corp’s (MUR) raw stochastic average was set at 46.97%, which indicates a significant increase from 41.92% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 45.58% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 62.75% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $22.25, while its 200-day Moving Average is $28.03. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $24.41 in the near term. At $25.02, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $26.10. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $22.72, it is likely to go to the next support level at $21.64. The third support level lies at $21.03 if the price breaches the second support level.
Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE: MUR) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 3.40 billion has total of 142,716K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 3,028 M in contrast with the sum of 407,170 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 665,710 K and last quarter income was 73,040 K.
