Analysis of Woodside Petroleum Limited
Introduction
Woodside Petroleum is listed on Australian Stock Exchange and is one of the company under
ASX 2000. The company is engaged in exploration of oil and gas along with its development,
production and marketing. Woodside Petroleum has three business segment comprising of
production, development and trading and shipping activities. The production segment of the
company is in North West Shelf. Pluto Liquefied Natural Gas and Australia Oil.
Development segment consists of Floating Liquefied Natural Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas
(Wheatstone). Further, the marketing segment of the business comprise of major markets like
USA, Canada, Myanmar, Senegal and other countries. The company is the largest operator of
oil and gas production in entire Australia and also Australia’s largest independent and
dedicated oil company. The company is headquartered in Perth, Australia.
The company marks its presence pan globe with its major operations in the country and Asia
Pacific region and America. The company has a market capitalisation of $32.7 Billion with a
beta of 0.96 compared to ASX 200, a proxy of market. The dividend yield of the company is
1.27 and Return on Equity of 8.38%. A brief snapshot of overall financial of the company
coupled with industry performance is presented here-in-below:
Overall
Beta: 0.96
Market Cap (Mil.): $32,699.87
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 936.15
Dividend: 1.27
Yield (%): 3.88
Financials WPL.AX Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 16.56 4.98 11.35
EPS (TTM): 2.11 -- --
ROI: 6.02 0.78 12.89
ROE: 8.38 0.05 15.36
(Reuters.com, 2019)
The trading price of the stock of the company is 34.93 AUD as on 5th May, 2019. Also, Peter
Coleman is the Chief Executive Officer of the company and he has more than 30 years of
experience in the oil and gas business. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, 2019)
Industry of the company
The company operates in Oil and Gas sector with major competitors:
(a) Santos Limited;
(b) Origin Limited;
(c) BHP Group Limited ; (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, 2019)
(d) Apache Corporation;

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