Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY) price on Thursday, April 18, rose 0.20% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $66.11.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $65.98. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 16.93. Turning to its 52-week performance, $71.18 and $55.12 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, OXY moved 3.20% over the past month.
Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s market cap currently stands at around $58.60 billion. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.76, with its dividend yield at 1.15%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.6, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to $3.76 and about $4.8 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 1.90% for 2024 and 27.70% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $6.7 billion for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $6.37 billion and $6.94 billion respectively. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2024 to grow to $29.94 billion, representing a 3.50% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was 2 upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that OXY is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.97, with OXY’s current price about -0.77% and 5.20% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 51.97, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.62% and 1.96% in the 30-day chart. Further, Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY) has a beta value of 1.66, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.33.
If we refocus on Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 8.68 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 886.47 million shares.
The 0.33% of Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 79.79% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 10.72% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the OXY stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
