Bremer Bank National Association boosted its holdings in Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX – Free Report) by 50.0% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 36,965 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock after acquiring an additional 12,326 shares during the quarter. Bremer Bank National Association’s holdings in Phillips 66 were worth $4,211,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other large investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Van ECK Associates Corp lifted its holdings in Phillips 66 by 263.3% in the third quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 83,278 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $10,753,000 after buying an additional 60,355 shares during the period. Everence Capital Management Inc. bought a new stake in Phillips 66 in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $3,033,000. Mizuho Securities USA LLC increased its stake in Phillips 66 by 7,549.0% in the third quarter. Mizuho Securities USA LLC now owns 2,500,000 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $328,625,000 after purchasing an additional 2,467,316 shares in the last quarter. Nwam LLC bought a new stake in Phillips 66 in the third quarter valued at approximately $498,000. Finally, Principal Financial Group Inc. increased its stake in Phillips 66 by 2.8% in the third quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 530,807 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $69,775,000 after purchasing an additional 14,209 shares in the last quarter. 76.93% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several equities research analysts have commented on the stock. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their target price on shares of Phillips 66 from $167.00 to $161.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, December 9th. Barclays lowered their target price on shares of Phillips 66 from $124.00 to $115.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 13th. Mizuho lowered their target price on shares of Phillips 66 from $150.00 to $147.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, December 16th. Scotiabank lowered their price objective on shares of Phillips 66 from $145.00 to $136.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. Finally, Wolfe Research raised shares of Phillips 66 from a “peer perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $143.00 price objective for the company in a research report on Friday, January 3rd. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eleven have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Phillips 66 currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $147.93.
Phillips 66 Stock Up 0.8 %
Phillips 66 stock opened at $120.64 on Monday. The company has a market cap of $49.82 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.17 and a beta of 1.38. Phillips 66 has a 1-year low of $108.90 and a 1-year high of $174.08. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $122.47 and a 200 day simple moving average of $129.66. The company has a current ratio of 1.21, a quick ratio of 0.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62.
Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, October 29th. The oil and gas company reported $2.04 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.63 by $0.41. The business had revenue of $36.16 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $36.31 billion. Phillips 66 had a net margin of 2.24% and a return on equity of 13.12%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 10.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $4.63 earnings per share. Research analysts anticipate that Phillips 66 will post 7.22 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Phillips 66 Profile
Phillips 66 operates as an energy manufacturing and logistics company in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Midstream, Chemicals, Refining, and Marketing and Specialties (M&S). The Midstream segment transports crude oil and other feedstocks; delivers refined petroleum products to market; provides terminaling and storage services for crude oil and refined petroleum products; transports, stores, fractionates, exports, and markets natural gas liquids; provides other fee-based processing services; and gathers, processes, transports, and markets natural gas.
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