Barclays analyst Jeanine Wai maintained a Buy rating on Hess (HES) yesterday and set a price target of $55.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $34.52.
According to TipRanks.com, Wai ‘s ranking currently consits of no stars on a 0-5 ranking scale, with an average return of -30.4% and a 15.7% success rate. Wai covers the Basic Materials sector, focusing on stocks such as Centennial Resource Development, Continental Resources, and Occidental Petroleum.
Hess has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $54.00, implying a 72.9% upside from current levels. In a report issued on March 9, Merrill Lynch also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $60.00 price target.
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The company has a one-year high of $74.11 and a one-year low of $26.06. Currently, Hess has an average volume of 4.05M.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 66 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of HES in relation to earlier this year.
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Hess Corp is an exploration and production company, which engages in exploration, development, production, transportation, purchase & sale of crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas with production operations. It operates through the following segments: Exploration and Production and Midstream. The Exploration and Production segment explores for, develops, produces, purchases and sells crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas. The Midstream segment provides fee-based services including crude oil and natural gas gathering, processing of natural gas and the fractionation of natural gas liquids, transportation of crude oil by rail car, terminaling and loading crude oil and natural gas liquids, and the storage and terminaling of propane, primarily in the Bakken shale play of North Dakota. The company was founded by Leon Hess in 1920 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
