Murphy USA Inc (NYSE: MUSA) is 45.73% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $309.18 and a high of $522.57 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The MUSA stock was last observed hovering at around $510.71 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 8.92%.
Currently trading at $519.63, the stock is 1.93% and 5.02% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.17 million and changing 1.75% at the moment leaves the stock 22.76% off its SMA200. MUSA registered 62.80% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 24.05%.
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The stock witnessed a 0.90% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 18.43%, and is 1.07% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.68% over the week and 1.98% over the month.
Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) has around 15600 employees, a market worth around $10.65B and $21.16B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 21.01 and Fwd P/E is 18.82. Profit margin for the company is 2.50%. Distance from 52-week low is 68.07% and -0.56% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (17.29%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -5.33% this year.
Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) Top Institutional Holders
621.0 institutions hold shares in Murphy USA Inc (MUSA), with institutional investors hold 93.37% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 20.84M, and float is at 18.80M with Short Float at 5.43%. Institutions hold 85.03% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 1.84 million shares valued at $865.21 million. The investor’s holdings represent 8.8546% of the MUSA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 1.82 million shares valued at $$853.65 million to account for 8.7363 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 1.65 million shares representing 7.9367% and valued at over $775.53 million, while HOLOCENE ADVISORS, LP holds 2.8684 of the shares totaling 0.6 million with a market value of $280.28 million.
Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by KEYES JAMES W,the company’sDirector. SEC filings show that KEYES JAMES W sold 2,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Aug 27 ’24 at a price of $511.54 per share for a total of $1.02 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 16114.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 08 ’24, MURPHY ROBERT MADISON (Director) disposed off 13,454 shares at an average price of $514.38 for $6.92 million. The insider now directly holds 382,930 shares of Murphy USA Inc (MUSA).
