With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.19 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Midstream company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $65.2399 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $64.13. The 52-week range on CQP shows that it touched its highest point at $66.47 and its lowest point at $45.41 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $54.00. With its current market cap of 31.27 billion, CQP has annualized dividend of $3.21 while the current yield stands at 4.96%. CQP paid its most recent dividend on 1730678400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739145600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.70.
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 CQP was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.90%, but this was up by 16.48% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 29.39% while six-month performance rose 29.18%. The stock gained 25.41% in the past year, while it has gained 21.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CQP yields 3.83 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.28. For the next quarter, that number is 1.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of -41.69% for this year and 5.49% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -15.16% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 97.79%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 484.00 million CQP shares are outstanding with a float of 243.62 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 0.8 million, which was 17.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Jack A. Fusco as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO of Cheniere Energy Partners GP LLC, Mr. Zach Davis serves as its Executive VP, CFO & Director of Cheniere Energy Partners GP LLC.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.46431 of CQP’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, CQP reported revenue of $2055000000.0 and operating income of $827000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1005000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.08.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CQP since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 CQP analysts setting a high price target of 71.0 and a low target of 43.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 53.53333. Based on these targets, CQP could surge 9.91% to reach the target high and fall by -33.44% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -17.13% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.56 being high and $4.18 being low. For CQP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.32.
