With 0.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.25 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $16.7 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.19. The 52-week range on DEC shows that it touched its highest point at $17.70 and its lowest point at $10.54 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $27.01. With its current market cap of 827.33 million, DEC has annualized dividend of $2.62 while the current yield stands at 16.10%. DEC paid its most recent dividend on 1724889600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740700800.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of DEC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.21%, but this was up by 2.01% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 39.42% while six-month performance fell -3.04%. The stock gained 28.41% in the past year, while it has lost -3.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DEC yields 3.01 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.64. For the next quarter, that number is 0.44. This implies an EPS growth rate of -81.37% for this year and -2.58% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 46.86 million DEC shares are outstanding with a float of 44.86 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.26 million, which was 246.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Robert Russell Hutson Jr. as the firm’s Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Mr. Bradley Grafton Gray serves as its President & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.72092 of DEC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for DEC since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With DEC analysts setting a high price target of 27.0 and a low target of 19.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.0. Based on these targets, DEC could surge 65.95% to reach the target high and rise by 16.78% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 41.36% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $10.91088 being high and -$8.28058 being low. For DEC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.36386. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.76 and the low estimate is $0.76. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.76.
