Prepare Yourself for Liftoff: EOG Resources, Inc (EOG)

With 3.0 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.82 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $109.31 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $107.41. The 52-week range on EOG shows that it touched its highest point at $138.18 and its lowest point at $102.52 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $138.67. With its current market cap of 60.18 billion, EOG has annualized dividend of $3.77 while the current yield stands at 3.46%. EOG paid its most recent dividend on 1744761600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1744761600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.83.

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 EOG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.53%, but this was down by -12.22% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -20.11% while six-month performance fell -14.33%. The stock lost -17.59% in the past year, while it has lost -10.99% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EOG yields 11.23 with Next year EPS estimates of 11.00. For the next quarter, that number is 2.79. This implies an EPS growth rate of -12.75% for this year and 8.51% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 3.82% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 19.03%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 557.21 million EOG shares are outstanding with a float of 550.05 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 13.96 million, which was 252.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Ezra Y. Yacob as the firm’s CEO & Chairman, Ms. Ann D. Janssen serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.94382006 of EOG’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 2024-12-31, EOG reported revenue of $5650000000.0 and operating income of $1956000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $3045000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EOG since 21 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 13 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 EOG analysts setting a high price target of 161.0 and a low target of 114.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 136.7171. Based on these targets, EOG could surge 47.56% to reach the target high and rise by 4.48% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.3% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $11.90004 being high and $11.27742 being low. For EOG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $11.50839. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.93 and the low estimate is $1.9. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.39.