BHP) share price a buy?

The BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP) share price has gone up 2% today, is it a buy?

What is BHP?

BHP describes itself as a world-leading resources company. It extracts and processes minerals, oil and gas with the help of over 80,000 employees and contractors around the world, predominately in Australia and the Americas. Its headquarters are based in Melbourne, Australia.

It has a number of different commodities that it deals with including iron ore, metallurgical coal, energy coal, copper, oil and gas.

The company can trace its history back to 1851. It was formed in a merger between BHP and Billiton. The Billiton name comes from a tin mine on an island in Indonesia, Billiton (Belitung) Island.

What has happened recently to BHP?

Since the…