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 Thursday, February 14th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.18 per share on Wednesday, March 27th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 5th. View Halliburton's Dividend History.

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 22nd. The oilfield services company reported $0.41 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.04. The oilfield services company had revenue of $5.94 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.87 billion. Halliburton had a return on equity of 18.57% and a net margin of 6.90%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down .1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.53 EPS. View Halliburton's Earnings History.

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

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

26 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Halliburton's stock. Their predictions range from $33.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect Halliburton's share price to reach $45.2609 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 58.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Halliburton.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Halliburton in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 23 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Halliburton.

Press coverage about HAL stock has been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Halliburton earned a media sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the oilfield services company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

Halliburton saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 16,494,666 shares, a drop of 11.4% from the February 28th total of 18,611,841 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 11,795,640 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 1.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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), Propetro (PUMP), RPC (RES), Liberty Oilfield Services (LBRT), Oceaneering International (OII), Franks International (FI), Select Energy Services (WTTR), SemGroup (SEMG), Helix Energy Solutions Group (HLX), Keane Group (FRAC), FTS International (FTSI) and C&J Energy Services (CJ).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Halliburton investors own include Schlumberger (SLB), Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Intel (INTC), General Electric (GE), Alibaba Group (BABA), Citigroup (C), Netflix (NFLX) and Micron Technology (MU).

Halliburton's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.79%), Sanders Capital LLC (2.46%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.40%), Harris Associates L P (1.45%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.14%). Company insiders that own Halliburton stock include Anne L Beaty, David J Lesar, Eric Carre, James S Brown, Jeffrey Allen Miller, Lance Loeffler, Lawrence J Pope, Murry Gerber, 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 Jennison Associates LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, CWM LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Stifel Financial Corp and Worldquant Millennium Quantitative Strategies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Halliburton company stock in the last year include Anne L Beaty, James S Brown and Lance Loeffler. View Insider Buying and Selling for Halliburton.

HAL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Harris Associates L P, Norges Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, Macquarie Group Ltd., Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP and American Century Companies Inc.. 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 $28.48.

Halliburton has a market capitalization of $24.85 billion and generates $24.00 billion in revenue each year. The oilfield services company earns $1.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.90 on an earnings per share basis. Halliburton employs 60,000 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]