Murphy USA Stock: 6 Straight Red Days, Down 12%
A multi-day slide in the stock has drawn attention, but the underlying business metrics tell a different story.
A six-day slide in Murphy USA (MUSA) stock has erased about $1.2 billion from the company’s market value. For anyone holding the shares, that marks a significant shift in a short period.
The cumulative loss over this 6-day streak is 12%, leaving the company’s market value at about $9.3 billion.
MUSA Versus The S&P 500, Streak And Beyond
- A 9-Day Losing Streak Has Aehr Test Systems Stock Down 45%
- Karman Stock: 10 Straight Red Days, Down 27%
- How Will Credo Technology Stock React To Its Upcoming Earnings?
- The $37 Billion Consolation Prize For MCD Shareholders
- Why ZM Stock Prints So Much Cash Right Now
- Has Microsoft Stock Run Ahead Of Its AI Payoff?
Here is how MUSA stock stacks up against the S&P 500 over the streak and the periods around it:
| Return Period | MUSA | S&P 500 |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | -1.2% | -0.2% |
| 6D (Current Streak) | -11.7% | 0.9% |
| 1M (21D) | -18.2% | 3.7% |
| 3M (63D) | -0.4% | 1.7% |
| YTD 2026 | 25.2% | 12.7% |
| 2025 | -19.1% | 16.4% |
| 2024 | 41.3% | 23.3% |
| 2023 | 28.2% | 24.2% |
The stock’s price now looks cheaper than its business.
This move is specific to Murphy USA, not a reflection of the broader market. Over the same 6 trading days, the S&P 500 returned +0.9%. The market appears to be weighing a mixed fundamental picture, but the valuation is now notably lower than the median. MUSA trades at a price-to-earnings multiple of 15.0, well below the S&P 500 median of 23.3.
The company’s revenue over the last twelve months grew 10.3%, ahead of the S&P 500 median revenue growth of 8.3%. While its 3-year average annual revenue growth is -0.8% and its operating margin of 4.4% is below the S&P median of 18.5%, the business also generates a free cash flow yield of 5.8%.
A streak is a prompt to check your thesis.
A streak of this length is information. It tells you that a stock has momentum and the market’s attention, but it is not an instruction to act. A string of down days does not automatically mean a stock is a buy, just as a string of up days does not mean it is a sell.
The disciplined move is to use the streak as a trigger to check the business against the price. The fundamental data offers a starting point to assess whether the recent selling has created an opportunity or revealed a risk the market is only now pricing in.
If the drop has you weighing an entry, resist buying a falling price alone. Our Buy the Dip screen ranks the marked-down names where growth and cash generation still support a recovery.
Prefer the theme to this single name? A consumer discretionary ETF like XLY holds the sector rather than this one name. It is still a concentrated bet on that one theme, though, which is exactly the gap the portfolio below closes.
A Slide Like This Is Why Diversification Exists
Watching one stock fall day after day is the clearest lesson the market teaches about single-name risk. Whether this particular decline is an opportunity or a warning, the deeper point is the same: no one name should be able to do this to your portfolio.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is built on that principle: roughly 30 businesses selected for consistent cash generation, strong margins, and resilient balance sheets, sized and rebalanced with rules. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the three major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Study the slide; spread the risk.