BHP Group Limited (NYSE:BHP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.98M but it saw 3390733 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 140.31B USD, stock’s current market price of $55.03 came falling about -0.69 while comparing to the previous closing price of $55.41. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $71.52 and as low as $46.92. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $55.195 while lowest mark touched by it was $54.4114.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of BHP Group Limited (BHP) gives us an average price of $58.51, while its current price level is -23.06% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 17.28% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $59.52 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $58.90. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.27% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.58%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 34.25 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
BHP Group Limited (BHP)’s stock is currently under the radar of 25 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $49.69 and $84.45 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $49.69 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $84.45. Average price target assigned by them is $63.57 which highlights an upside potential of 13.43% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $62.04 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 11.3% of value to its current levels.
Data by FactSet Research shows that 25 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 3 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 2 are advising it as an Overweight. 8 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 10 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Hold for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Strong Buy.
Over the week, BHP’s stock price is moving -5.92% down while it is -5.71% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -11.31% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -10.58%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 08/21/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of $0 while estimate for next year EPS is $0.
Currently, BHP Group Limited’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.53B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 3.66% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 38.10% and return on equity (ROE) at 58.90%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 7.65. Stock’s beta reads 0.98. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.27 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.33. Its return on asset (ROA) is 28.10% on average.
A filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that Government Pension Fund – Global came shrinking its share ownership by 1,095.71% in the BHP Group Limited (BHP) increasing its stake to 1.46% with control over 33.9 million shares in the company. As per SEC documents, Government Pension Fund – Global shunned 36,995,882 of company’s common stock of worth $2.18 billion as per recent closing price of the stock. Government Pension Fund – Global is not the only institutional holder which restructured its stake in BHP Group Limited, as Harding Loevner International Equ dumped 5,486,064 shares of worth $323.9 million to bring its holdings to a total of -1.79 million shares.
