Why Are People Talking About Investing in HES?

By Scott Lee • Monday, November 13 12:50 • Permanent Link

Hess marked a 0.3% change today, compared to -0.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $142.06? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Hess Corporation, an exploration and production company, explores, develops, produces, purchases, transports, and sells crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas.
Hess belongs to the Energy sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 7.54 and an average price to book (P/B) of 1.68
The company's P/B ratio is 5.03
Hess has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 29.8 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $4.76 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 15.7, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $9.05
HES has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 4.34, which shows the company is overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Hess has averaged free cash flows of $2.4 Billion, which on average grew 15.2%
HES's gross profit margins have averaged 3.8 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 42.4 % and a coefficient of variability of 24654.0 %.
Hess has moved -2.0% over the last year compared to 12.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -14.0%
HES has an average analyst rating of buy and is -17.63% away from its mean target price of $172.48 per share

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