Is the BHP Group (ASX:BHP) share price worth a buy today?

Is the BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP) share price a buy today? Good question!

BHP has been one of the best S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) blue chip shares to own in recent years. It even fared relatively well during the coronavirus-induced market crash last year, roughly recovering all of its March 2020 losses by August. In contrast, it took until 2021 for most of the ASX banks to do the same. And over the past 5 years, BHP shares have gained more than 132% in value. And that’s not even including dividend returns.

As it stands today (at the time of writing) at $48.36 a share, BHP is sitting pretty close to its 52-week (and all-time) high of $50.93. Even at this relatively high share price, BHP still offers a trailing dividend yield of…