BP Stock Analysis – A Concise Overview for Investors

By Naomi Wentworth • Saturday, May 03 09:51 • Permanent Link

BP p.l.c. logged a 0.9% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $28.12 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. BP's trading volume is 10,600,638 compared to the stock's average volume of 13,024,970.

BP p.l.c. trades -19.44% away from its average analyst target price of $34.91 per share. The 17 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $27.0 to $44.0, and on average have given BP p.l.c. a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in BP, you'll want to know the following:

BP p.l.c.'s current price is 1839.3% above its Graham number of $1.45, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
BP p.l.c. has moved -28.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 9.8%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of -0.41, BP p.l.c. has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -68.6 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
BP has a forward P/E ratio of 7.5 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.77 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 7.62 compared to its sector average of 1.6
BP p.l.c., an integrated energy company, provides carbon products and services.
Based in London, the company has 100,500 full time employees and a market cap of $73.23 Billion. BP p.l.c. currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.1%.

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