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

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

Halliburton announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 12th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.18 per share on Wednesday, September 26th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.80%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 4th. View Halliburton's Dividend History.

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) released its earnings results on Monday, July, 23rd. The oilfield services company reported $0.58 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.59 by $0.01. The oilfield services company had revenue of $6.15 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.12 billion. Halliburton had a net margin of 0.42% and a return on equity of 19.48%. Halliburton's revenue was up 24.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.23 earnings per share. View Halliburton's Earnings History.

Halliburton is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October, 22nd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Halliburton.

22 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Halliburton's shares. Their forecasts range from $47.00 to $69.00. On average, they expect Halliburton's stock price to reach $56.0476 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 40.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Halliburton.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Halliburton in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 19 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Halliburton.

Halliburton saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 19,883,412 shares, an increase of 58.9% from the July 13th total of 12,510,421 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 13,460,944 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.5 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Halliburton's Current Options Chain.

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

News coverage about HAL stock has trended positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Halliburton earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.32 on Accern's scale. They also gave headlines about the oilfield services company an impact score of 42.66 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Halliburton.

Halliburton's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.56%), Sanders Capital LLC (1.81%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.66%), FMR LLC (1.05%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.01%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (0.83%). Company insiders that own Halliburton stock include Anne L Beaty, David J Lesar, Eric Carre, James S Brown, Jeffrey Allen Miller, Joe D Rainey, 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 Standard Life Aberdeen plc, FMR LLC, BlackRock Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Tweedy Browne Co LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Halliburton company stock in the last year include Anne L Beaty, David J Lesar, Eric Carre, James S Brown, Jeffrey Allen Miller, Lawrence J Pope, Robb L Voyles and Timothy Mckeon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Halliburton.

HAL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Natixis, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Morgan Stanley, Advisors Asset Management Inc., Putnam Investments LLC, Sanders Capital LLC, Federated Investors Inc. PA and Stevens Capital Management LP. 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 $39.97.

Halliburton has a market capitalization of $36.90 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.

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]