2.18% volatility in Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) last month: This is a red flag warning

Zack King

Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) on Tuesday, plunged -3.16% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $40.19. Within the past 52 weeks, OXY’s price has moved between $34.78 and $53.20.

The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -34.90%. With a float of $981.74 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $985.18 million.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) Insider Updates

Observing investor behavior towards Oil & Gas E&P industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Occidental Petroleum Corp is 0.35%, while institutional ownership is 77.89%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 07 ’25, was worth 35,724,074. In this transaction 10% Owner of this company bought 763,017 shares at a rate of $46.82, taking the stock ownership to the 264,941,431 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 19 ’24, when Company’s 10% Owner bought 3,614,015 for $45.60, making the entire transaction worth $164,787,626. This insider now owns 264,178,414 shares in total.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) Performance Highlights and Predictions

As on 12/31/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.8 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.67) by 0.13. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.41 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -34.90% per share during the next fiscal year.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) Trading Performance Indicators

Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.71 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.43. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 10.09.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.37, a number that is poised to hit 0.34 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.57 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 9.8 million. That was inferior than the volume of 11.22 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.48%.

During the past 100 days, Occidental Petroleum Corp’s (OXY) raw stochastic average was set at 1.13%, which indicates a significant decrease from 2.72% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.80 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 1.05 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $41.71, while its 200-day Moving Average is $43.50. However, in the short run, Occidental Petroleum Corp’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $39.57. Second resistance stands at $40.21. The third major resistance level sits at $40.60. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $38.54, it is likely to go to the next support level at $38.15. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $37.51.

Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE: OXY) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 38.34 billion based on 985,210K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 26,725 M and income totals 3,056 M. The company made 6,624 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 830,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.

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