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Central Petroleum Limited is an oil & gas e&p business based in Australia. Central Petroleum shares (CTP) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Central Petroleum has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $65 million.
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Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Central Petroleum 's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was $0.125, which is 4.00% up on its pre-crash value of $0.12 and 92.31% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as $0.065.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Central Petroleum shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $530.77 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $961.54.
52-week range | $0.068 - $0.175 |
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50-day moving average | $0.1197 |
200-day moving average | $0.0935 |
Target price | $0.65 |
PE ratio | 16 |
Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.007 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of A$0.125 on 2020-10-22
1 week (2021-01-11) | -3.85% |
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1 month (2020-12-18) | -3.85% |
3 months (2020-10-16) | 4.17% |
6 months (2020-07-17) | 45.35% |
1 year (2020-01-17) | -3.85% |
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2 years (2019-01-18) | -24.24% |
3 years (2018-01-18) | 19.05% |
5 years (2016-01-18) | 12.82% |
Valuing Central Petroleum stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Central Petroleum 's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Central Petroleum 's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 16x. In other words, Central Petroleum shares trade at around 16x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Central Petroleum 's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $18.6 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Central Petroleum 's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $65 million |
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Operating margin TTM | 4.19% |
Gross profit TTM | $31.7 million |
Return on assets TTM | 1.04% |
Return on equity TTM | -2008.38% |
Profit margin | 8.32% |
Book value | 0.002 |
Market capitalisation | $79.6 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Central Petroleum to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Central Petroleum 's shares were split on a 1:5 basis on 1 October 2013. So if you had owned 5 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Central Petroleum shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 400% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Central Petroleum shares which in turn could have impacted Central Petroleum 's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Central Petroleum 's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.068 up to $0.175. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Central Petroleum 's is 1.6656. This would suggest that Central Petroleum 's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Central Petroleum Limited engages in the development, production, processing, and marketing of hydrocarbons in Australia. It holds interests in various oil and gas properties comprising 181,875 square kilometers of exploration area located in the Amadeus, Southern Georgina, Wiso, and Surat Basins. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.
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