Murphy Oil (MUR)

• Market cap: $3.05B
• 1 day: -3.25%
• 5 days: -2.05%
• 1 month: -27.71%
• 3 months: -25.26%
• 6 months: -34.72%
• Year to date: -33.69%
• 1 year: -54.01%
• 5 years: 73.10%
• 10 years: -56.88%
• Sector: Energy
• Industry: Oil & Gas Exploration & Production

About: Murphy Oil Corp is an oil and gas exploration and production company, with both onshore and offshore operations and properties. It operates in two geographic reportable segments the United States and Canada. It generates the majority of its revenue form the United States.

Employees: 750

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

48% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $23.1M | Put options by funds: $15.6M

11% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 147 | Existing positions reduced: 133

0.77% more ownership

Funds ownership: 82.02% [Q3] → 82.79% (+0.77%) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q3] → 3 (+0) [Q4]

1% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 72 | Existing positions closed: 73

2% less funds holding

Funds holding: 414 [Q3] → 407 (-7) [Q4]

11% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $4.12B [Q3] → $3.66B (-$459M) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $22 7% upside
• Avg. target: $27 33% upside
• High target: $35 70% upside

6 analyst ratings

• positive: 1 17%
• neutral: 3 50%
• negative: 2 33%

Barclays Betty Jiang 38% 1-year accuracy 14 / 37 met price target	17% upside $24	Underweight Downgraded	23 Apr 2025
Piper Sandler Mark Lear 38% 1-year accuracy 63 / 164 met price target	70% upside $35	Overweight Maintained	22 Apr 2025
Scotiabank Paul Cheng 41% 1-year accuracy 15 / 37 met price target	7% upside $22	Sector Perform Maintained	11 Apr 2025
UBS Josh Silverstein 22% 1-year accuracy 13 / 58 met price target	12% upside $23	Neutral Maintained	7 Apr 2025
Morgan Stanley Devin McDermott 31% 1-year accuracy 9 / 29 met price target	56% upside $32	Underweight Maintained	27 Mar 2025