Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) saw downtrend of -11.16% in the recent trading with $362.48 being its most recent. The current price level -35.40% lower than the highest price of $561.08 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is -5.96% higher than the lowest price of $385.44 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on MUSA appeared in (C-Store Dive) under the title “Murphy USA to open 40 new c-stores by end of 2025” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 4 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.00 for the stock.
Murphy USA Inc Earnings – What Happened With MUSA
Coming around sales and income figures on MUSA Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Murphy USA Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 19.29 million. MUSA does have institutional investors; and they hold 86.27% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Murphy USA Inc (NYSE:MUSA) with an ownership of 1.84 million shares of the company or 8.9279 of the stake worth $865.21 million. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 8.8087 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $853.65 million for having 1.82 million shares in hand.
FMR LLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 8.0025 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 637.0 institutions which have possession in MUSA’s shares.
Key Metrics forMUSA
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Murphy USA Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 4.01.
