Benzinga | Aug 5, 2021 06:03AM EDT

Murphy Oil Q2 Adj. EPS $0.59 Beats $0.24 Estimate, Sales $549.64M Miss $576.91M Estimate

Murphy Oil (NYSE:MUR) reported quarterly earnings of $0.59 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $0.24 by 145.83 percent. This is a 183.1 percent increase over losses of $(0.71) per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $549.64 million which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $576.91 million by 4.73 percent. This is a 159.83 percent increase over sales of $211.54 million the same period last year.