Murphy USA (MUSA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Murphy USA in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" MUSA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MUSA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Murphy USA's shares. Their MUSA share price targets range from $280.00 to $470.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $404.60 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.1%.
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Murphy USA's stock was trading at $356.56 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, MUSA shares have increased by 15.9% and is now trading at $413.40.
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Murphy USA saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,140,000 shares, a drop of 21.4% from the February 29th total of 1,450,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 198,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.8 days. Approximately 6.0% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Murphy USA will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Murphy USA Inc. (NYSE:MUSA) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 7th. The specialty retailer reported $7.00 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $5.79 by $1.21. The specialty retailer earned $5.07 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.32 billion. Murphy USA had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 70.92% and a net margin of 2.59%. Murphy USA's revenue for the quarter was down 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $5.21 earnings per share.

Murphy USA announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 15th. Investors of record on Monday, February 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.42 per share on Thursday, March 7th. This represents a $1.68 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.41%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 23rd. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.41.
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Murphy USA (NYSE:MUSA) pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.40%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 6.59%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MUSA will have a dividend payout ratio of 5.99% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Murphy USA (NYSE:MUSA) stock in their portfolio include Strategas Macro Thematic Opportunities ETF (SAMT), Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF (QVAL), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ), iShares MSCI USA Small-Cap Min Vol Factor ETF (SMMV), Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Growth ETF (RFG), ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM) and SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Murphy USA investors own include American International Group (AIG), NVIDIA (NVDA), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), General Electric (GE), Energy Transfer (ET), Broadcom (AVGO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS), International Paper (IP) and Pfizer (PFE).

Murphy USA's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.33%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.13%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.10%), West Coast Financial LLC (0.07%), Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.02%) and Viking Fund Management LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher A Click, Donald R Smith Jr, Jeanne Linder Phillips, Jennifer Bridges, John A Moore, R Andrew Clyde, Renee M Bacon, Robert J Chumley, Robert Madison Murphy and Terry P Hatten.
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Shares of MUSA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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