MUSA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Murphy USA | NYSE:MUSA)

Murphy USA Inc is mainly engaged in the marketing of retail motor fuel products and convenience merchandise through a network of several retail stores in the Southwest, Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast United States. The majority of Murphy USA's stores are located in proximity to Walmart Supercenters, but it also operates standalone stores that market gasoline and other products under the Murphy USA, Murphy Express, and QuickChek brands. In addition, the company also markets fuel to unbranded wholesale customers through a mixture of company-owned and third-party product distribution terminals and pipeline positions. The firm generates maximum revenue through retail sales of petroleum products, and the rest from merchandise sales and wholesale of petroleum products.

Murphy USA trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MUSA.

As of September 11, 2026, MUSA stock price declined to $523.58 with 152,742 million shares trading.

MUSA has a beta of -0.97, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MUSA has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MUSA has a market cap of $9.67 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Murphy USA reported $7 billion in Revenue and $11.27 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $864 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.69.

In the last 3 years, MUSA traded as high as $636.05 and as low as $312.53.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MUSA belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VB, VBR, VXF, MDY.

MUSA has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +33.7% while the SPY ETF gained +17.4%. However, in the short term, MUSA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -15.7% vs +3.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, MUSA shares have fared better than the market returning +4.1% compared to SPY -0.7%.

MUSA support price is $513.06 and resistance is $538.50 (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 MUSA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.