MUR Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Murphy Oil | NYSE:MUR)

Murphy Oil Corp is an oil and gas exploration and production company, with both onshore and offshore operations and properties. It operates in two geographic reportable segments the United States and Canada. It generates the majority of its revenue form the United States.

Murphy Oil trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MUR.

As of January 9, 2026, MUR stock price declined to $32.56 with 2,676,756 million shares trading.

MUR has a beta of 0.83, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MUR has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MUR has a market cap of $4.65 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Murphy Oil reported $733 million in Revenue and $.41 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $64 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.24.

In the last 3 years, MUR traded as high as $49.14 and as low as $18.95.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MUR belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, SCHD, IJH, AVUV, VB.

MUR has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.3%, while SPY returned +19.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in MUR shares. However, MUR has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +9.5% and +3.5%, while SPY returned +3.4% and +0.5%, respectively. This indicates MUR has been having a stronger performance recently.

MUR support price is $31.71 and resistance is $33.77 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MUR shares will trade within this expected range on the day.