Empire Petroleum Corp (EP) Stock Forecast Oct. 19, 2026

Our AI ranks Empire Petroleum Corp outside the neutral middle of its coverage (a directional signal). Create a free account and follow it to see the exact price target.

Empire Petroleum Corp is a small-cap company with a market capitalization of $134M. It ranks number 60 by market capitalization among the 60 Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas issuers in our coverage with a current forecast. Its P/B Ratio of 18.30x is the highest of the 39 peers that report one. Its ROE of -974.5% is the lowest of the 34 peers that report one.

For EP, the Spearman rank correlation between our 90-day forecasts and the returns that followed is 0.0%, measured on 358 forecast dates between 2022-08-01 and 2026-07-21 on this stock's own recent history. A rank correlation runs from -100% to +100%: it measures whether higher forecasts were followed by higher returns, and a value near zero or below means the model has shown little skill on this stock. On the 30-day forecasts the same correlation is 1.0%, measured on 401 forecast dates between 2022-08-01 and 2026-09-18. Across our coverage, the out-of-sample test on 4495 stocks from 2025-01-06 to 2026-07-07 produced a positive net return in 82.5% of rebalance periods (factor-neutral book, net of estimated costs). Full backtest report

Expected return relative to the market over the horizon: a positive alpha means the model expects the stock to beat the market, whatever the market does. Ratings: strong buy ≥ +1.9%, buy ≥ +0.2%, sell < -0.9%, strong sell < -1.2% (top 15%, next 20%, middle 30%, next 20%, bottom 15% of the 2026-10-19 signals)

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