NYSE:ESV - Ensco Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Ensco trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ESV."

Ensco announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, December 14th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 30th. View Ensco's Dividend History.

Ensco Plc (NYSE:ESV) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 29th. The offshore drilling services provider reported ($0.33) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.35) by $0.02. The offshore drilling services provider earned $431 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $424.66 million. Ensco had a negative return on equity of 5.98% and a negative net margin of 36.53%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 6.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted ($0.05) EPS. View Ensco's Earnings History.

Ensco is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Ensco.

16 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Ensco's shares. Their predictions range from $3.60 to $14.00. On average, they expect Ensco's stock price to reach $7.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 56.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ensco.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ensco in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ensco.

Media headlines about ESV stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ensco earned a coverage optimism score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the offshore drilling services provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

Ensco saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 82,232,005 shares, an increase of 0.1% from the January 15th total of 82,175,897 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 12,538,632 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.6 days. Approximately 18.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Ensco's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Ensco include Helmerich & Payne (HP), Transocean (RIG), Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), Ocean Rig UDW (ORIG), Rowan Companies (RDC), Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO), Nabors Industries (NBR), Baytex Energy (BTE), Noble (NE), Precision Drilling (PDS), Oasis Midstream Partners (OMP), Independence Contract Drilling (ICD), Pioneer Energy Services (PES), Seadrill Partners (SDLP) and Key Energy Services (KEG).

Ensco's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.98%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.78%), Contrarius Investment Management Ltd (4.50%), Elephas Investment Management Ltd (2.03%), Van ECK Associates Corp (1.91%) and Ruffer LLP (1.60%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ensco.

ESV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Odey Asset Management Group Ltd, Northern Trust Corp, Manning & Napier Group LLC, CWM LLC, Robotti Robert, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Voloridge Investment Management LLC and South Dakota Investment Council. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ensco.

ESV stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Elephas Investment Management Ltd, Ruffer LLP, Manikay Partners LLC, Van ECK Associates Corp, Alpine Associates Management Inc., TVR Capital Management LP, Nomura Holdings Inc. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ensco.

Shares of ESV can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ESV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $4.78.

Ensco has a market capitalization of $2.09 billion and generates $1.84 billion in revenue each year. The offshore drilling services provider earns $-303,700,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.52) on an earnings per share basis. Ensco employs 5,400 workers across the globe.

The official website for Ensco is http://www.enscoplc.com.

Ensco's mailing address is 6 CHESTERFIELD GARDENS, LONDON X0, W1J5BQ. The offshore drilling services provider can be reached via phone at 44-20-7659-4660 or via email at [email protected]