Murphy Oil Corp
Murphy Oil Corp (MUR) is listed on NYSE and classified in Oil & Gas E&P, part of the Energy sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 813 employees. The company is worth $6.07B and trades at 21.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 14.7x. Revenue was $2.72B in fiscal 2025, down 10.2% from the year before. Net income was $104.23M. The share price is 3.2% below its 52-week high of $43.75. It pays a dividend yielding 3.30%. 5 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 $57.29M. In that quarter, 3 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.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +57.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,772.50▲ +77.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
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| Year-end price | $31.25 | $30.26 | $42.66 | $43.01 | $26.11 | $12.10 | $26.80 | $23.39 | $31.05 | $31.13 | $22.45 | $50.52 | $64.88 | $51.42 | $48.13 | $64.38 | $46.80 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 3.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 14.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 10.5 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Sector median of 8.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LBLandBridge Corp | $76.96 | 71.3x | 6.1x | 0.62% | 11.52% | $6.03B |
| HESMHess Midstream LP | $30.04 | 10.7x | 7.5x | 10.29% | 150.72% | $6.19B |
| SEISolaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. | $58.61 | 86.2x | 4.1x | 0.82% | 8.10% | $5.9B |
| CVICvr Energy Inc | $58.63 |
| $38.30 |
| $73.26 |
| P/E | 10.5x | 43.4x | 11.2x | 10.1x | 7.0x | — | — | 3.8x | 9.9x | — | — | — | 10.0x | 10.9x | 10.3x | 10.7x | 18.1x | 12.5x | 4.9x | 21.2x |
| P/S | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.5x | 1.9x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 0.9x | 1.5x | 2.2x | 3.7x | 2.9x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 2.2x | 2.5x | 2.5x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.3x | 0.9x |
| P/B | 1.2x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 0.4x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 0.7x | 1.0x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 3.2x |
| EPS | $0.72 | $2.70 | $4.22 | $6.13 | -$0.48 | -$7.48 | $6.98 | $2.36 | -$1.81 | -$1.60 | -$13.03 | $5.03 | $5.94 | $4.99 | $4.49 | $3.57 | $3.76 | $7.82 | $3.46 |
| Dividend yield | 2.62% | 4.16% | 3.97% | 2.58% | 1.92% | 1.91% | 5.17% | 3.73% | 4.28% | 3.22% | 3.85% | 6.24% | 2.62% | 1.73% | 6.17% | 1.97% | 1.41% | 1.85% | 1.98% | 0.80% |
| Payout | 24.21% | 180.56% | 44.44% | 26.07% | 13.46% | — | — | 14.33% | 42.37% | — | — | — | 26.36% | 18.92% | 63.62% | 21.16% | 25.42% | 22.99% | 9.67% | 16.86% |
| Profit margin | 6.34% | 3.83% | 13.44% | 19.12% | 22.87% | -2.63% | -58.39% | 40.64% | 22.76% | -21.59% | -14.81% | -77.21% | 16.54% | 20.84% | 21.02% | 20.40% | 3.97% | 4.96% | 6.34% | 4.19% |
| ROE | 9.94% | 2.04% | 7.84% | 12.34% | 19.32% | -1.77% | -27.26% | 21.03% | 8.51% | -6.75% | -5.61% | -42.79% | 10.56% | 13.07% | 10.86% | 9.94% | 9.73% | 11.40% | 27.71% | 15.13% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-13.4% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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