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Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for MUSA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta −0.76 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How MUSA has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year −0.76 — moves strongly against bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Murphy USA Inc moved −0.76% on average · correlation −0.18 · higher than 3% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −1.35 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.30% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +2.58% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Specialty Retail · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Retail

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against MUSA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Murphy USA Inc

MUSA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Murphy USA runs retail fuel stations and convenience stores under the Murphy USA, Murphy Express and QuickChek names, concentrated in the Southeast, Southwest and Midwest of the United States. It sells motor fuel alongside snacks, drinks and other convenience merchandise, and also runs stand-alone convenience sites without fuel bays. The company is headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Where it sits in the stack
Murphy USA holds no seat in our index; it sits in the Consumer Cyclical sector, in the Specialty Retail sleeve, as a fuel-and-convenience retailer rather than a build-out name.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group compares it with other scored Consumer Cyclical names in the United States, including Maplebear, Lululemon and SharkNinja; the market's own closer comparison is Casey's General Stores.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score across the diary's usual modules; valuation reads as the strongest module and quality as the weakest. It holds no index seat and has not yet drawn a mention in the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak quality reading narrows as fuel margins and convenience-store traffic move, and whether that shift changes the gap against the stronger valuation reading.

Murphy USA Inc (MUSA) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.50%, quarterly · buybacks 650 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What MUSA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.55 USD per share · a 0.50% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +67.8% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.52 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.65 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-24
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.15 USD (partial) · 2026: 1.92 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-24
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 42 m USD 8% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 650 m USD 6.8% of today's market value
  • Share count −6.3% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 691 m USD · 185% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Murphy USA Inc (MUSA)?

Murphy USA Inc trades as MUSA on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is MUSA in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Murphy USA Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does MUSA trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -7.7% vs the 50-day and +2% vs the 200-day average, 19.5% below the 52-week high and +47.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Murphy USA Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Murphy USA Inc had a beta of −0.76 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly against bonds, higher than 3% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.30% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Murphy USA Inc do?

Murphy USA runs retail fuel stations and convenience stores under the Murphy USA, Murphy Express and QuickChek names, concentrated in the Southeast, Southwest and Midwest of the United States. It sells motor fuel alongside snacks, drinks and other convenience merchandise, and also runs stand-alone convenience sites without fuel bays. The company is headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas. Closelooknet's peer group compares it with other scored Consumer Cyclical names in the United States, including Maplebear, Lululemon and SharkNinja; the market's own closer comparison is Casey's General Stores.

Where does Murphy USA Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Murphy USA holds no seat in our index; it sits in the Consumer Cyclical sector, in the Specialty Retail sleeve, as a fuel-and-convenience retailer rather than a build-out name. It carries a Closelooknet score across the diary's usual modules; valuation reads as the strongest module and quality as the weakest. It holds no index seat and has not yet drawn a mention in the diary's editions.

Does Murphy USA Inc pay a dividend?

Murphy USA Inc has paid 2.55 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.50% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.65 USD on 2026-08-24. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 42 m USD in dividends and bought back 650 m USD of its own shares, 185% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 6.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for MUSA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Specialty Retail. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.