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Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK)

January 26, 2018 20:54·

The regular session started at $4.14 but as the trading went on, the stock receded, ending the session with a fall of -2.94%. Public Employees Retirement System of OH now owns 403,219 shares of the oil and gas exploration company's stock valued at $2,004,000 after purchasing an additional 126,910 shares during the last quarter.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) reported its EPS in the last quarter as $0.12/Share beating the analyst estimate of $0.11/Share by a difference of $0.01. That puts the market capitalization at $1.82 bln. In looking at volatility levels, the shares saw weekly volatility of 7.99% and 6.38% over the past month. The Stock has YTD (year to date) performance of 0 percent. Jefferies Group lowered shares of Chesapeake Energy from a hold rating to an underperform rating and reduced their price target for the stock from $4.00 to $2.00 in a research report on Monday, October 9th. According to First Call, the consensus price target for the company is $4.48. According to their observations and findings, the stock could provide a high EPS of $0.36/share and a low EPS of $0.11/share.

The insider now holds 1.01 million shares of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK). This was revealed in their last financial report. This showed a surprise of 9.1% in the last quarter earnings. Narrowing in further, the stock has been recently noted at -8.65% away from the 50 day high and 13.14% separated from the 50 day low. After the recent increase in the stock price, investors might also be looking to see if the stock has entered overbought territory and possibly be primed for a pullback. As for the shares, it has gone below the 20 days moving average and is now hovering within a distance of -2.07%. Now the price is sitting at 0.72% higher than its 50 days moving average. Analyzing the last five market sessions, the stock was able to report -0.75% losses, thus going down by -10.83%, compared with its 200-day moving average of $4.07.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) gross margin percentage stands at 75.9% while its operating margin for the past trailing twelve month is 2.8 percent and its overall profit margin (ttm) is -5.2 Percent.

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused on discovering and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the U.S. Chesapeake owns leading positions in the Marcellus, Haynesville, Bossier, and Barnett natural gas shale plays and in the Eagle Ford, Utica, Mississippi Lime, Granite Wash, Cleveland, Tonkawa, Niobrara, Bone Spring, Avalon, Wolfcamp and Wolfberry unconventional liquids plays.

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OVAS's mean recommendation on Reuter's scale has so far not been altered from 3 thirty days ago to 3 now. The consensus recommendation provided by analysts is now 3.10. This implies that they believe the stock has what it takes to lift the price another 640.74%.

Analysts are expecting average earnings estimates of $0.23 for the current quarter based on the opinion of 27 analysts, relating to high earnings per share estimates of $0.36 and low estimates of $0.11, however Chesapeake Energy Corp (NYSE:CHK) reported $0.07 earnings per share for the same quarter a year ago.

According to Chesapeake Energy Corporation's latest 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), institutional ownership is at 63.97%. The stock price volatility for last week at the close of regular trading was 6.37%, pushing the figure for the whole month to now reaching 2.91%. OvaScience, Inc. price was kept to a minimum $1.08 in intra-day trade and has returned -22.86% this year alone. At a certain point in the past four quarters, the shares traded as low as $1.07 but made a 0.93% recovery since then.

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