Is the great BP share price party about to come to a crashing halt? 

The BP (LSE: BP) share price has given buyers consolation at a tough time. Whereas many FTSE 100 shares have been knocked by Iran warfare volatility, it’s a clear and apparent beneficiary. However for the way for much longer?

There have been ups and downs in latest weeks, relying on the prospects for peace. But general, BP shares have achieved properly. They’re up 16% in the final three months, and a beautiful 53% over one 12 months. Dividends are on high. Lengthy-term BP buyers may additionally say that it’s about time too.

Regardless of that robust run, the inventory trades at roughly the similar stage because it did at the begin of the millennium. It’s had a bumpy 25 years, plunging with the remainder of the market after the 2001 dotcom crash, and taking additional hits from the monetary disaster in 2007, the Deepwater Horizon tragedy in 2010, and Covid lockdowns in 2020.

So how is the FTSE 100 inventory doing at this time?

The Ukraine warfare drove up the oil price but in addition pressured BP to take a large £25bn hit on its stake in Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft. The group additionally battled with boardroom points, which noticed the final two CEOs, Bernard Looney and Murray Auchincloss, depart all of the sudden. It’s additionally struggled to reply to local weather change pressures.

Q1 outcomes (28 April) revealed a robust begin to 2026, with quarterly income up £5.3bn to £52.3bn. BP’s buying and selling division struck black gold, as clients raced to safe power provides. Nonetheless, buyers can’t assume it will proceed. A lot relies on what occurs to Iran and the oil price.

BP’s bumper earnings additionally attracted contemporary consideration from the Treasury. The present ‘windfall’ cost already accounts for round a third of the whole taxes it pays to the UK authorities. Now Chancellor Rachel Reeves has scrapped a tax rule permitting oil and fuel corporations to offset UK earnings in opposition to abroad losses, to fund a £1.8bn cost-of-living assist bundle.

Is the oil large value contemplating?

Right this moment (25 Could), there’s one other problem to contemplate following stories that the US has struck a peace deal that will see Iran surrender uranium and open the Strait of Hormuz. If the market wasn’t closed for a Financial institution Vacation, I’d think about the FTSE 100 could be hovering, and BP shares could be heading the different approach. Though you by no means know with this stuff.

You by no means know with Donald Trump’s peace offers both. This one may stall, at which level, BP shares may bounce.

Power tends to be a cyclical sector. I’d a lot slightly purchase a inventory like BP at the backside than the high. That’s why I added it to my SIPP some 18 months in the past, when it was firmly out of favour. I now plan to maintain all through the cycle, reinvesting each dividend I obtain.

Regardless of its latest success, the ahead price-to-earnings ratio is a modest 8.2. Plus there’s some meaty earnings, with a 4.6% forecast yield. Share buybacks stay on maintain, sadly. I’m cautious of shopping for at this time. But long-term buyers may nonetheless contemplate shopping for if a dip occurs. We would get one very quickly.

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Harvey Jones owns shares in BP.