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Royal Dutch Shell plc is an oil & gas integrated business based in the US. Royal Dutch Shell shares (RDS-B) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Royal Dutch Shell employs 87,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$204.2 billion.
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Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Royal Dutch Shell's stock price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was $49.63, which is 0.24% up on its pre-crash value of $49.51 and 158.62% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the stocks fell as low as $19.19.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Royal Dutch Shell stocks at the start of February 2020, those stocks would have been worth $484.14 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $960.34.
| Latest market close | $49.63 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $21.55 - $49.49 |
| 50-day moving average | $42.66 |
| 200-day moving average | $39.26 |
| Wall St. target price | $61.67 |
| PE ratio | 34.4748 |
| Dividend yield | $0.747 (1.55%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.43 |
Note: The dollar amounts in the table below are in Canadian dollars.
Historical closes compared with the close of $49.63 from 2021-10-20
| 1 week (2021-10-15) | 0.81% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2021-09-22) | 21.61% |
| 3 months (2021-07-22) | 34.10% |
| 6 months (2021-04-22) | 38.83% |
| 1 year (2020-10-22) | 105.25% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2019-10-22) | -16.48% |
| 3 years (2018-10-22) | 67.2 |
| 5 years (2016-10-21) | 54.03 |
Valuing Royal Dutch Shell stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Royal Dutch Shell's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Royal Dutch Shell's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 34x. In other words, Royal Dutch Shell shares trade at around 34x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Royal Dutch Shell's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.4071. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Royal Dutch Shell's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Royal Dutch Shell's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $53.7 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Royal Dutch Shell's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $204.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 7.13% |
| Gross profit TTM | $39.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 2.36% |
| Return on equity TTM | 3.58% |
| Profit margin | 2.72% |
| Book value | $43.13 |
| Market capitalisation | $190.8 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 2.8 million Royal Dutch Shell shares held short by investors – that's known as Royal Dutch Shell's "short interest". This figure is 52.6% up from 1.8 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Royal Dutch Shell shares can be evaluated.
Royal Dutch Shell's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Royal Dutch Shell shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Royal Dutch Shell shares traded daily (recently around 3.9 million). Royal Dutch Shell's SIR currently stands at 0.7. In other words for every 100,000 Royal Dutch Shell shares traded daily on the market, roughly 700 shares are currently held short.
However Royal Dutch Shell's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Royal Dutch Shell shares, or, against the total number of tradable Royal Dutch Shell shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Royal Dutch Shell's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Royal Dutch Shell shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0007% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Royal Dutch Shell shares, roughly 1 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Royal Dutch Shell.
Dividend payout ratio: 1.16% of net profits
Recently Royal Dutch Shell has paid out, on average, around 1.16% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.03% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Royal Dutch Shell shareholders could enjoy a 3.03% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Royal Dutch Shell's case, that would currently equate to about $0.747 per share.
While Royal Dutch Shell's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Royal Dutch Shell is investing more in its future growth.
Royal Dutch Shell's most recent dividend payout was on 20 September 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 12 August 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Royal Dutch Shell's shares were split on a 100:116 basis on 20 July 2005. So if you had owned 116 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 100 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Royal Dutch Shell shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 16% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Royal Dutch Shell shares which in turn could have impacted Royal Dutch Shell's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Royal Dutch Shell's shares have ranged in value from as little as $21.5492 up to $49.49. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Royal Dutch Shell's is 1.0062. This would suggest that Royal Dutch Shell's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Royal Dutch Shell plc operates as an energy and petrochemical company worldwide. The company operates through Integrated Gas, Upstream, Oil Products, Chemicals segments. It explores for and extracts crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; markets and transports oil and gas; produces gas-to-liquids fuels and other products; and operates upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver gas to market. The company also markets and trades natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), crude oil, electricity, carbon-emission rights; and markets and sells LNG as a fuel for heavy-duty vehicles and marine vessels. In addition, it trades in and refines crude oil and other feed stocks, such as gasoline, diesel, heating oil, aviation fuel, marine fuel, biofuel, lubricants, bitumen, and sulphur; produces and sells petrochemicals for industrial use; and manages oil sands activities. Further, the company produces base chemicals comprising ethylene, propylene, and aromatics, as well as intermediate chemicals, such as styrene monomer, propylene oxide, solvents, detergent alcohols, ethylene oxide, and ethylene glycol. Royal Dutch Shell plc was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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