NYSE:NE - Noble Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Noble trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NE."

Noble Co. PLC (NYSE:NE) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 2nd. The oil and gas company reported ($0.49) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.47) by $0.02. The oil and gas company earned $258.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $256.02 million. Noble had a negative net margin of 81.87% and a negative return on equity of 7.44%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 7.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted ($0.32) EPS. View Noble's Earnings History.

Noble is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Noble.

14 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Noble's shares. Their predictions range from $3.00 to $7.00. On average, they anticipate Noble's stock price to reach $4.9917 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 18.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Noble.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Noble in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Noble.

Noble saw a decline in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 41,951,563 shares, a decline of 5.8% from the August 15th total of 44,525,416 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,565,921 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 9.2 days. Currently, 17.3% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Noble's Current Options Chain.

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

Media stories about NE stock have been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, Accern reports. Accern identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Noble earned a news impact score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the oil and gas company an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View Recent Headlines for Noble.

Noble's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (15.24%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.74%), Contrarius Investment Management Ltd (3.09%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.78%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.78%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (1.51%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Noble.

NE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Donald Smith & CO. Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Schroder Investment Management Group, Schroder Investment Management Group, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Van ECK Associates Corp, Speece Thorson Capital Group Inc. and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. View Insider Buying and Selling for Noble.

NE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Marshall Wace LLP, BlackRock Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Contrarius Investment Management Ltd, CastleArk Alternatives LLC, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC and Castleark Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Noble.

Shares of NE 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 NE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $6.14.

Noble has a market capitalization of $1.49 billion and generates $1.24 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $-516,510,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.14) on an earnings per share basis. Noble employs 2,000 workers across the globe.

Noble's mailing address is Devonshire House 1 Mayfair Place, London X0, W1J8AJ. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at 44-20-3300-2300 or via email at [email protected]