Media coverage about SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical (NYSE:SHI) has trended somewhat positive on Tuesday, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical earned a daily sentiment score of 0.21 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media coverage about the oil and gas company an impact score of 44.9059018592579 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company’s share price in the next few days.
SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical (SHI) traded up 0.38% during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $61.07. 20,542 shares of the stock were exchanged. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $57.56 and its 200 day moving average is $57.44. SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical has a 52 week low of $48.82 and a 52 week high of $64.80. The company has a market capitalization of $6.58 billion, a PE ratio of 6.57 and a beta of 0.48.
SHI has been the subject of a number of research reports. Instinet upgraded shares of SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical from a “reduce” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 9th. BidaskClub upgraded shares of SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 9th. Citigroup Inc. cut shares of SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Thursday, June 1st. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 17th. Finally, Nomura upgraded shares of SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical to a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 3rd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $66.00.
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About SINOPEC Shangai Petrochemical
Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited (Shanghai Petrochemical) is a petrochemical company. The Company and its subsidiaries are principally engaged in processing crude oil into synthetic fibers, resins and plastics, intermediate petrochemicals and petroleum products. The Company operates in five operating segments.
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