In the current trading session, Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s (OXY) stock is trading at the price of $65.37, a fall of -0.56% over last night’s close. So, the stock is trading at a price that is -15.24% less than its 52-week high of $77.13 and 108.39% better than its 52-week low of $31.37. Based on the past 30-day period, the stock price is -1.58% below the high and +9.77% above the low.
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The 200-day Simple moving average is often placed more emphasis on by traders because of daily price changes. Investors will use the SMA-200 in different situations in trading activity as a key indicator to determine their support and resistance levels, and at the moment, OXY’s SMA-200 is $64.41.
It is also essential to consider OXY stock ratios like the price-to-sales ratio, which is 1.60 for the last year.Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the last twelve months stands at 5.23. OXY’s price to book ratio for the most recent quarter was 3.20, resulting in an 47.30 price to cash per share for the period.
How does Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) stock rate among analysts? Buy, sell, or hold?
The key to trading is to concentrate on the future rather than on the past. During uncertain times, it can be hard to make decisions. The analysts who understand how a market works are usually the most accurate at forecasting its future. Currently, there are 15 brokerage firms that recommend the stock as a Moderate Buy. The ratings are commonly aggregated into a single number between 1 and 5. Buy or strong buy is scored 5, outperform is scored 4, hold is scored 3, underperform is scored 2 and strong sell is 1. Using a scale of 1-5, the current average recommendation is 3.67 in simple terms.
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY): Earnings History
If we examine Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s recent earnings history, in the last quarter ended on 9/29/2022, it posted adjusted earnings per share of $2.44, beating the consensus of $2.46. In other words, it topped the consensus by -$0.02, resulting in a -0.80% surprise. In the 3 months period before the previous quarter which was closed on 9/29/2022, the stock recorded adjusted earnings per share of $2.44 in contrast with the Outlook of $2.46. That was a difference of -$0.02 and a surprise of -0.80%.
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY): Earnings History
Most analysts expect public companies to report earnings and revenue in line with their projections, but sometimes these figures vary from what they actually expected. In the current quarter, the company had earnings predictions made by 8 different analysts, who are expecting earnings to fall in between the range of 2.26 and 1.70 with an average Earnings Estimate of 1.91 which is in contrast with the last year earnings estimate of 1.48 and also replicates 29.05% growth rate year over year.
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) Ownership Details
I will give a breakdown of the key shareholders in Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY). Recent figures show that the company’s insiders hold 0.18% of shares. A total of 1,379 institutional investors hold shares in the company, making 82.98% of its stock and 83.13% of its float.
Jun 29, 2022, it was reported that the Company’s largest institutional holder is Berkshire Hathaway, Inc holding total of 158.55 million shares that make 16.92% of the company’s total number of shares and are currently priced at 9.34 billion.
The securities firm Dodge & Cox Inc holds 98.42 million shares of OXY, making it the second largest institutional shareholder. Taking this into account, the holding percentage comes to 10.50%, and the holding percentage of shares is valued at 5.8 billion.
An overview of Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s technicals
In order to learn about trade movements and investor behavior, it is best to analyze the short, medium, and long term technical indicators along with the average volume of a stock. A 20-day average of the stock’s daily volume suggests Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) traded 10,431,961 shares per day, with a moving average of $63.17 and price change of +1.85. With the moving average of $66.92 and a price change of -8.27, about 12,867,492 shares changed hands on average over the past 50 days. Finally, OXY’s 100-day average volume is 17,965,289 shares, alongside a moving average of $67.19 and a price change of -3.50.
