APA (APA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for APA in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings, 5 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" APA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in APA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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19 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for APA's shares. Their APA share price targets range from $28.00 to $57.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $42.05 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 40.5% from the stock's current price.
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APA's stock was trading at $35.88 at the beginning of the year. Since then, APA shares have decreased by 16.6% and is now trading at $29.92.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 7th 2024.
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APA Co. (NASDAQ:APA) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 2nd. The company reported $0.78 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.90 by $0.12. The business earned $1.95 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.89 billion. APA had a net margin of 34.04% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 45.32%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 2.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.19 EPS.
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APA declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 8th. Shareholders of record on Monday, April 22nd will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Wednesday, May 22nd. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.34%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, April 19th.
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APA (NASDAQ:APA) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.42%. The dividend payout ratio is 11.19%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, APA will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.70% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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APA announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, September 14th 2022, which allows the company to buyback 40,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

111 employees have rated APA Chief Executive Officer John J. Christmann, IV on Glassdoor.com. John J. Christmann, IV has an approval rating of 29% among the company's employees. This puts John J. Christmann, IV in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 41.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at APA to a friend.

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APA's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. (0.42%), Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.25%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.25%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.19%), Raymond James & Associates (0.17%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.12%). Insiders that own company stock include Chansoo Joung, P Anthony Lannie and Stephen J Riney.
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