Here's What You May Have Missed About Hess(HES)

By Ken Smith • Monday, April 10 12:00 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Hess over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Oil & Gas Drilling stock at a price of $142.98? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Hess has moved 26.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -7.0%
HES has an average analyst rating of buy and is -9.89% away from its mean target price of $158.67 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $6.78
Hess has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $9.49 and its forward P/E ratio is 15.1
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.5 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Hess is part of the Energy sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 7.54 and an average P/B of 1.68
HES has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 88.3% and gross profit margins of 0.7%
The company has a free cash flow of $1,137,374,976.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Hess Corporation, an exploration and production company, explores, develops, produces, purchases, transports, and sells crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas. The company operates in two segments: Exploration and Production, and Midstream.

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