Halliburton - HAL Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Halliburton in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating, 13 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" HAL shares.
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15 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Halliburton's stock. Their HAL share price forecasts range from $32.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $48.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 26.2% from the stock's current price.
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Halliburton's stock was trading at $39.35 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, HAL shares have decreased by 2.0% and is now trading at $38.56.
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Halliburton saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totaling 20,250,000 shares, a drop of 5.3% from the December 15th total of 21,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 9,930,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 18th 2023.
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Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January, 24th. The oilfield services company reported $0.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.05. The oilfield services company had revenue of $5.58 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.59 billion. Halliburton had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.25% and a net margin of 7.74%. The business's revenue was up 30.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.92 earnings per share.
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Halliburton announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 24th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 1st will be given a dividend of $0.16 per share on Wednesday, March 29th. This represents a $0.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.66%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 28th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.12.
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Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.16%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 27.75%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HAL will have a dividend payout ratio of 12.77% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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651 employees have rated Halliburton Chief Executive Officer Jeff Miller on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Miller has an approval rating of 63% among the company's employees. This puts Jeff Miller in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

Halliburton's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.31%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.25%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.22%), Strs Ohio (0.17%), Simplex Trading LLC (0.00%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.08%). Insiders that own company stock include Charles Jr Geer, Eric Carre, Jeffrey Allen Miller, Jill D Sharp, Joe D Rainey, Lance Loeffler, Lawrence J Pope, Margaret Katherine Banks, Mark Richard, Murry Gerber, Myrtle L Jones, Myrtle L Jones, Timothy Mckeon and Van H Beckwith.
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One share of HAL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.56.

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) has a market capitalization of $35.01 billion and generates $20.30 billion in revenue each year. The oilfield services company earns $1.57 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.73 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 40,000 workers across the globe.

Halliburton's mailing address is 3000 NORTH SAM HOUSTON PARKWAY EAST, HOUSTON TX, 77032. The official website for the company is www.halliburton.com. The oilfield services company can be reached via phone at (281) 871-4000, via email at investors@halliburton.com, or via fax at 713-759-2635.