NYSE:HAL - Halliburton Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Halliburton trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HAL."

Halliburton declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 7th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 6th will be given a dividend of $0.18 per share on Thursday, December 27th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 5th. View Halliburton's Dividend History.

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) issued its earnings results on Monday, October, 22nd. The oilfield services company reported $0.50 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.01. The oilfield services company earned $6.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.10 billion. Halliburton had a return on equity of 20.42% and a net margin of 0.70%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 13.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.42 EPS. View Halliburton's Earnings History.

Halliburton is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Halliburton.

Halliburton will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 22nd at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8883930263.

28 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Halliburton's stock. Their predictions range from $33.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Halliburton's share price to reach $50.1250 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 65.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Halliburton.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Halliburton in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 22 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Halliburton.

News stories about HAL stock have been trending positive this week, 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Halliburton earned a coverage optimism score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the oilfield services company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

Halliburton saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 15,076,556 shares, a decrease of 23.6% from the November 15th total of 19,734,075 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 10,611,405 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Halliburton's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Halliburton include Schlumberger (SLB), Gazprom Neft' PAO (GDR) (GZPFY), Subsea 7 (SUBCY), Core Laboratories (CLB), RPC (RES), Oceaneering International (OII), Liberty Oilfield Services (LBRT), SemGroup (SEMG), Franks International (FI), C&J Energy Services (CJ), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Keane Group (FRAC), Select Energy Services (WTTR) and FTS International (FTSI).

Halliburton's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Packer & Co Ltd (0.14%), Cacti Asset Management LLC (0.08%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.07%), LGT Capital Partners LTD. (0.04%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.02%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%). Company insiders that own Halliburton stock include Anne L Beaty, David J Lesar, Eric Carre, James S Brown, Jeffrey Allen Miller, Lawrence J Pope, Murry Gerber, Myrtle L Jones, Robb L Voyles, Timothy Mckeon and William E Albrecht. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Halliburton.

HAL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cacti Asset Management LLC, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Trust Department MB Financial Bank N A, First Hawaiian Bank, DNB Asset Management AS, Founders Capital Management, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and TRUE Private Wealth Advisors. Company insiders that have sold Halliburton company stock in the last year include Anne L Beaty, James S Brown, Jeffrey Allen Miller, Robb L Voyles and Timothy Mckeon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Halliburton.

HAL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Packer & Co Ltd, LGT Capital Partners LTD., Edge Wealth Management LLC, QUANTRES ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, Salem Capital Management Inc., Pennsylvania Trust Co, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC. Company insiders that have bought Halliburton stock in the last two years include Murry Gerber and William E Albrecht. View Insider Buying and Selling for Halliburton.

Shares of HAL 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 HAL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.35.

Halliburton has a market capitalization of $26.61 billion and generates $20.62 billion in revenue each year. The oilfield services company earns $-463,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.22 on an earnings per share basis. Halliburton employs 55,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Halliburton is http://www.halliburton.com.

Halliburton's mailing address is 3000 NORTH SAM HOUSTON PARKWAY EAST, HOUSTON TX, 77032. The oilfield services company can be reached via phone at 281-871-2699 or via email at [email protected]