Comstock Resources (CRK) Stock Price, News & Analysis

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Comstock Resources in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" CRK shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CRK, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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10 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Comstock Resources' shares. Their CRK share price targets range from $9.00 to $14.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $11.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 59.2% from the stock's current price.
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Comstock Resources' stock was trading at $8.85 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, CRK stock has decreased by 16.8% and is now trading at $7.36.
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Comstock Resources saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 22,530,000 shares, a decrease of 7.1% from the December 15th total of 24,260,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,830,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.9 days. Approximately 24.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 13th 2024.
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Comstock Resources will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 14th at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Comstock Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CRK) posted its earnings results on Monday, October, 30th. The oil and gas producer reported $0.04 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.06 by $0.02. The oil and gas producer earned $376.74 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $345.10 million. Comstock Resources had a net margin of 30.01% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.11%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 68.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $1.18 earnings per share.

Comstock Resources announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 30th. Investors of record on Friday, December 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.125 per share on Friday, December 15th. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a yield of 6.79%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 30th.
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Comstock Resources (NYSE:CRK) pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 6.79%. CRK has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 22.32%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CRK will have a dividend payout ratio of 45.87% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Comstock Resources (NYSE:CRK) stock in their portfolio include The Acquirers Fund (ZIG), Invesco Energy Exploration & Production ETF (PXE), Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (PSCE), SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP), Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG), First Trust Natural Gas ETF (FCG), Euclidean Fundamental Value ETF (ECML) and Direxion Daily S&P Oil & Gas Exp. & Prod. Bull 2x Shares (GUSH).

Shares of Comstock Resources reverse split before market open on Monday, August 1st 2016. The 1-5 reverse split was announced on Wednesday, July 20th 2016. The number of shares owned by shareholders was adjusted after the market closes on Friday, July 29th 2016. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the reverse split would have 20 shares after the split.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Comstock Resources investors own include CVS Health (CVS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Bank of America (BAC), Micron Technology (MU), Pfizer (PFE), AT&T (T), Alibaba Group (BABA), Chesapeake Energy (CHKAQ), Constellation Brands (STZ) and AbbVie (ABBV).

Comstock Resources' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.92%), Heartland Advisors Inc. (0.45%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.36%), Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (0.27%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.22%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.21%). Insiders that own company stock include Brian Christopher Claunch, Jim L Turner, M Jay Allison, Morris E Foster, Patrick Mcgough and Roland O Burns.
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Shares of CRK stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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