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·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 38%
·	Over the last 6 months: · 2 insider buys; 3,000 shares · one insider sell; 18.0K shares (0.1% of insider shares)
·	Institutional: 72% (117% of float) (438 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 1.73M shares (+5.02%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its operations are classified into two business activities, exploration and production, and refining, marketing and transportation. Murphy's exploration and production activities are subdivided into five geographic segments, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ecuador and all other countries, while its refining, marketing and transportation activities are subdivided into three geographic segments, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Its subsidiaries are Murphy Exploration & Production Co., Murco Petroleum Ltd., Murphy Oil Co. Ltd., Murphy Petroleum Ltd. and Murphy Oil USA Inc.

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Financial Summary

Murphy Oil Corp. is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and crude oil transportation and trading operations in Canada. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 18% to $2.49 billion. Net income before acctg. change totalled $260.4 million, up from $122.2 million. Revenues reflect higher natural gas prices and volumes. Earnings also reflect higher U.S. margins.

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Officers

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	FY2000 Compensation
	Pay	Exer

R. Murphy, 43 Chairman	--	--
Claiborne Deming, 46 Pres, CEO	$1.4M	$187K
Steven Cosse', 53 Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel	541K	336K
Herbert Fox, Jr., 66 VP	676K	300K
Bill Stobaugh, 49 VP	--	--
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.

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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:MUR

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 15-Dec-2000	$`53.375`
Recent Price	$`75.50`
52-Week High on 21-May-2001	$`87.85`
Beta	`0.56`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`357.5K`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`429.0K`
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change	`+12.3%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+50.6%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`3.42B`
Shares Outstanding	`45.3M`
Float	`28.1M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)	$`1.50`
Dividend Yield	`1.99%`
Last Split	none

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)	$`32.94`
Earnings (ttm)	$`9.56`
Earnings (mrq)	$`3.56`
Sales (ttm)	$`121.69`
Cash (mrq)	$`4.55`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)	`2.29`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`7.89`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.62`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`5.52B`
EBITDA (ttm)	$`902.8M`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`434.4M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`7.9%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`11.9%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Dec 31
Most recent quarter	30-June-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`14.46%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`34.10%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)	`1.26`
Debt/Equity (mrq)	`0.36`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`206.0M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`1.98M`
Percent of Float	`7.1%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`1.61M`
Short Ratio	`6.44`
Daily Volume	`308.0K`

See Profile Help for a description of each item above; K = thousands; M = millions; B = billions; mrq = most-recent quarter; ttm = trailing twelve months; (as of 30-June-2001)

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