Investors in cash trouble should check out Expand Energy Corp (EXE)

With 2.8 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.22 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas E&P company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $110.52 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $109.185. The 52-week range on EXE shows that it touched its highest point at $111.17 and its lowest point at $69.12 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $124.32. With its current market cap of 25.51 billion, EXE has annualized dividend of $2.30 while the current yield stands at 2.10%. EXE paid its most recent dividend on 1741651200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741651200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.47.

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 EXE was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.36%, but this was up by 7.04% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 13.46% while six-month performance rose 36.90%. The stock gained 26.54% in the past year, while it has gained 10.14% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EXE yields -4.12 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.20. For the next quarter, that number is 1.60. This implies an EPS growth rate of 434.89% for this year and 35.19% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 90.15% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 38.08%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 231.77 million EXE shares are outstanding with a float of 206.63 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 9.38 million, which was 403.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Domenic J. Dell’Osso Jr. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Mohit Singh Ph.D. serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.98427004 of EXE’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, EXE reported revenue of $1999000000.0 and operating income of -$388000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $286000000.0 and diluted EPS was -$1.72.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With EXE analysts setting a high price target of 170.0 and a low target of 85.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 124.07692. Based on these targets, EXE could surge 55.05% to reach the target high and fall by -22.47% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.17% 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 $1.46564 being high and $0.70389 being low. For EXE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.26315. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.71 and the low estimate is $0.34. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.39.