On July 13, SM Energy rose 5.29% in regular trading, trading at $29.15/share, with turnover of $15.85 million.

On the news front, multiple analyst upgrades and balance sheet improvements continue to catalyze the stock. Roth Capital Partners upgraded SM Energy from Neutral to Buy on June 22, raising its price target to $32 from $30. Earlier, Raymond James upgraded the stock from Underperform to Outperform with a $55 price target. The analyst consensus maintains an overweight average rating with a mean target of $42.20.

Fundamentally, SM Energy completed a $950 million South Texas asset divestiture and fully redeemed all outstanding 2026 senior notes, eliminating near-term debt maturities and optimizing its capital structure. The Civitas merger integration is executing ahead of plan, with Q1 production at 371 Mboe/d coming in 6% above guidance midpoint while capital spending was 12% below plan.

Within the Oil & Gas Exploration & Production sector, the overall performance was positive. Among individual stocks, ConocoPhillips up 2.03%, EQT Corp up 1.27%, Devon up 2.08%, Venture Global up 5.11%, Diamondback up 2.5%.

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