Sanford C. Bernstein reissued their outperform rating on shares of BP plc (LON:BP) in a research report report published on Thursday morning, Analyst Ratings Net reports. The firm currently has a GBX 420 ($5.98) target price on the oil and gas exploration company’s stock.

Other equities analysts have also issued reports about the company. AlphaValue reissued an add rating and issued a GBX 417 ($5.94) price objective on shares of BP plc in a report on Tuesday, October 20th. Deutsche Bank reissued a buy rating and issued a GBX 450 ($6.41) price objective on shares of BP plc in a report on Thursday, October 22nd. Canaccord Genuity reissued a buy rating and issued a GBX 430 ($6.13) price objective on shares of BP plc in a report on Tuesday, October 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. set a GBX 400 ($5.70) price objective on BP plc and gave the stock a buy rating in a report on Friday, October 2nd. Finally, HSBC reissued a buy rating and issued a GBX 410 ($5.84) price objective on shares of BP plc in a report on Thursday, October 15th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, fourteen have issued a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. BP plc presently has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus target price of GBX 404.13 ($5.76).

BP plc (LON:BP) traded up 2.08% during trading on Thursday, reaching GBX 376.10. The company had a trading volume of 56,502,072 shares. The stock’s market cap is GBX 69.01 billion. BP plc has a 52-week low of GBX 319.90 and a 52-week high of GBX 499.25. The company has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 345.61 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 366.29.

In other news, insider Sawers,John bought 13,528 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 3rd. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 369 ($5.26) per share, with a total value of £49,918.32 ($71,118.85). Also, insider Gilvary,Brian bought 80 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 10th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 383 ($5.46) per share, for a total transaction of £306.40 ($436.53).

BP p.l.c. (LON:BP) is an integrated oil and gas company. The Company provides its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, lubricants and the petrochemicals products used to make everyday items, including paints, clothes and packaging. The Company operates in three business segments: Upstream, Downstream and Rosneft. The Upstream segment’s activities include oil and natural gas exploration, field development and production; midstream transportation, storage and processing, and the marketing and trading of natural gas, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), together with power and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The Company’s Downstream segment’s activities include the refining, manufacturing, marketing, transportation, and supply and trading of crude oil, petroleum, petrochemicals products and related services to wholesale and retail customers. BP’s interest in Rosneft, an oil company in Russia, is reported as a separate operating segment.

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