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Several other equities research analysts have also weighed in on BP. HSBC upped their price target on shares of BP from GBX 610 ($7.97) to GBX 640 ($8.36) and gave the stock a buy rating in a research report on Monday, June 4th. Societe Generale upped their price target on shares of BP from GBX 615 ($8.04) to GBX 650 ($8.49) and gave the stock a buy rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 6th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating, fifteen have assigned a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the stock. Shares of BP traded up GBX 1.40 ($0.02) during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting GBX 559.40 ($7.31).

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New Delhi, Oct 15 () The speed of decision making in India is not good for its brand as processes have delayed BP's investment in the country, a top official of the British oil major said Monday. "There was lot of change in the contracts but comparative competitive ... capital did not get the results as expected. As BP, we want to do large products here not small ones," said Dudley in a question and answer session at India Energy Forum by CERAWeek on Monday. Recently, the government asked oil marketing countries to bear the cut in petrol and diesel prices to insulate consumer from the skyrocketing crude oil prices in the international market. India is making itself competitive for investments." About the BP venture into downstream (refining business) he said, "We are talking to Reliance about possible (venture) in downstream together. We are working our plans. But give us sometime."

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NEW DELHI, Oct (Shenzhen: 000069.SZ - news) 15 (Reuters) - Global oil major BP said on Monday fuel price controls were "not good", days after India asked state-run fuel retailers to shield customers from record-high costs by cutting margins. BP has a tie-up with Reliance Industries (BSE: RELIANCE.BO - news) , owner of the world's biggest refining complex, to enter India's downstream sector, including natural gas marketing and retail fuel sales. "I think that price controls are a kind of thing that will not be good for the sector in the longer term," Bob Dudley, Group Chief Executive of BP, said at the India Energy Forum organised by IHS CERA. BP, which has tied up with Reliance to explore gas fields in India, expects to have a 10 percent gas market share by 2022, Dudley said, adding he expected BP India's gas production with Reliance to be 1 billion cubic feet per day in five years.

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Profitability and returns are the main reason of investment, the investors are looking for profits that they get and return they should expect over the period of time. Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY) reported $0.14/share EPS for the previous quarter where analysts were predicting an EPS to be $0.14/share Thus meeting the analyst Estimates with a Surprise Factor of 0 Percent. While, BP p.l.c. tends to be beating the analyst estimates more than Coty Inc.. so BP is more profitable than COTY. The price to Book P/B for COTY is 0.94, Price to Sale is at 0.89 and for BP these ratios stand at 1.48 and 0.55.

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Finally, HSBC lifted their price target on shares of BP from GBX 675 ($8.82) to GBX 690 ($9.02) and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, September 12th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating, fifteen have given a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. BP has a 1 year low of GBX 436.95 ($5.71) and a 1 year high of GBX 536.20 ($7.01). The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 579 ($7.57) per share, for a total transaction of £306.87 ($400.98).

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BP says price controls "not good", days after India cuts cost of fuel. NEW DELHI, Oct (Shenzhen: 000069.SZ - news) 15 (Reuters) - Global oil major BP said on Monday fuel price controls are "not good", days after India asked state-run fuel retailers to shield customers from record-high costs by cutting margins. BP has a tie-up with Reliance Industries (BSE: RELIANCE.BO - news) , owner of the world's biggest refining complex, to enter India's downstream sector including retail fuel sales. BP, which has tied up with Reliance to explore gas fields in India, expects to have a 10 percent gas market share by 2022, Dudley said, adding that he expects BP India's gas production with Reliance to be 1 billion cubic feet in five years.

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BP Plc (NYSE:BP) has grabbed attention from the analysts, when it saw a value increase of 0.95% or 0.42 points in the last trading session to close at $44.55. Shares of BP Plc (NYSE:BP) currently have an Average Brokerage Recommendation of 2.25, number of Recs in ABR is 12 while industry rank of the company by ABR is out of 255. Out of the analyst recommendations 2 rate BP Plc (NYSE:BP) stock a Buy, 2 rate the stock Outperform, 4 rate Hold, 1 rate Underperform and 0 recommend a Sell. ROI is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. While having a peek at profitability ratios BP Plc (NYSE:BP) has trailing twelve month gross margin at 15.5%, its trailing twelve month operating margin stands at 4.1% whereas its trailing twelve month net profit margin spots at 2.6%. However looking at valuation ratios the stock has 5 year expected PEG ratio of 0.58 whereas its trailing twelve month P/E ratio is 18.45.

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BP (LON:BP)‘s stock had its “overweight” rating restated by stock analysts at Barclays in a research note issued to investors on Monday, October 8th. Morgan Stanley raised BP from an “equal” rating to an “overweight” rating and increased their price objective for the stock from GBX 680 ($8.89) to GBX 695 ($9.08) in a research note on Wednesday, September 5th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating, sixteen have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. BP has a 52-week low of GBX 436.95 ($5.71) and a 52-week high of GBX 536.20 ($7.01).

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