Devon Energy Corp (NYSE:DVN) price on Thursday, November 14, rose 0.69% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $39.38.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $39.11, moving within a range at $38.895 and $39.63. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.071 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 7.30. Turning to its 52-week performance, $54.63 and $37.76 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, DVN moved -3.22% over the past month.
3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode
The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.
We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.
Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored
Devon Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $25.87 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in December. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.08, with its dividend yield at 2.74%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 4.1B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 3.88B and 4.22B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -1.07% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 15.6B, representing a 2.24% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that DVN is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
18 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 4 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 13 recommend DVN as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.82, with DVN’s current price about 0.55% and -1.87% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 48.07, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.34% and 2.37% in the 30-day chart. Further, Devon Energy Corp (DVN) has a beta value of 2.04, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.01. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $57, forecast between a low of $35 and high of $91. Looking at the price targets, the low is 11.12% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -131.08%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -44.74% jump to $57 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Devon Energy Corp (NYSE:DVN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 9.65 over the past 10 days and 7.87 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 656.90 million shares.
The 0.76% of Devon Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 70.73% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 18.94 million on 2024-10-31, giving us a short ratio of 2.27. The data shows that as of 2024-10-31 short interest in Devon Energy Corp (DVN) stood at 327.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 22.79 million registered in 2024-09-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -11.93% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the DVN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
