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APA
APA Corp
NASDAQ· Energy· Oil & Gas E&P· CUSIP 03743Q108
$49.44+0.12%Price as of Oct 23, 00:45 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
APA Corp (APA) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Oil & Gas E&P, part of the Energy sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 1,791 employees. The company is worth $17.32B and trades at 10.5x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 14.7x. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.02%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $116.83M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $17.32B
- P/E
- 10.5x
- Forward P/E
- 9.6x
- P/B
- 2.5x
- Dividend yield
- 2.02%
- Payout
- 21.14%
- EPS
- $4.73
- ROE
- 26.66%
- Profit margin
- 19.56%
- Revenue growth
- +9.20%
- Beta
- 0.42
- 52-week high
- $50.50
- 52-week low
- $21.63
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$116.83M3.59M shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Ray DalioNew positionBridgewater Associates · Q2 2026$47.04M1.44M shares · 0.2% of portfolio
Ken GriffinReducedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$34.87M1.07M shares · 0.0% of portfolio- Renaissance TechnologiesNew positionRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$18.03M553.66K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Two SigmaAddedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$14.44M443.26K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
- Israel EnglanderReducedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$737.29K22.64K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +90.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,176.76▲ +117.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 7 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $24.46 | $23.09 | $35.88 | $46.68 | $26.89 | $14.19 | $25.59 | |
| P/E | 6.1x | 6.1x | 10.2x | 3.9x | 4.2x | 10.4x | — | — |
| P/B | 2.2x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 4.1x | 34.3x | — | — | 2.2x |
| EPS | $3.99 | $2.27 | $9.25 | $11.02 | $2.59 | -$12.86 | -$9.43 | |
| Dividend yield | 2.79% | 4.09% | 4.33% | 2.79% | 1.34% | 0.51% | 2.29% | 3.91% |
| Payout | 10.81% | 25.06% | 44.05% | 10.81% | 5.67% | 5.33% | — | — |
| ROE | 23.54% | 23.54% | 15.23% | 107.53% | 965.01% | — | — | -82.46% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$46.16
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$63.53
Earnings growing 11.4% a year plus a 2.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$69.72
Median P/E of 14.7 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$29.00
Median P/E of 6.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$326.52
Cash flow growing 11.4% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$113.84
Sector median of 8.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
$70.33
Dividend growing 5.5% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $52.10 (avg. of 4)+Cash flow $326.52+Operating $113.84+Dividends $70.33÷ 4 =$140.70
$140.70
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
$105.52
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$49.44
+184.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Energy, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAAPlains All American Pipeline LP | $25.90 | 22.3x | 2.0x | 6.45% | 10.18% | $18.27B |
| WESWestern Midstream Partners, LP | $44.46 | 14.1x | 4.3x | 8.37% | 34.11% | $18.37B |
| VNOMViper Energy, Inc. | $45.35 | 2267.5x | 1.7x | 5.40% | 1.09% | $16.29B |
| OVVOvintiv Inc. | $69.30 | 19.5x | 1.7x | 1.73% | 8.41% | $19.17B |
| YPFYPF Sociedad Anonima | $49.17 | 25.9x | 1.6x | 0.00% | 7.25% | $19.28B |
| PRPermian Resources Corp | $24.40 | 16.1x | 1.7x | 2.58% | 11.40% | $20.44B |
About the company
- 1,791
- Houston, United States