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 results on Wednesday, October, 31st. The oil and gas company reported ($0.43) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.45) by $0.02. The oil and gas company had revenue of $279.41 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $263.19 million. Noble had a negative return on equity of 8.26% and a negative net margin of 79.51%. The firm's revenue was up 5.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted ($0.36) earnings per share. View Noble's Earnings History.

Noble is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 20th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Noble.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Noble's shares. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $10.00. On average, they expect Noble's stock price to reach $6.2231 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 93.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Noble.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Noble in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Noble.

Headlines about NE stock have trended somewhat positive on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates 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. Noble earned a coverage optimism score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

Noble saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 46,114,934 shares, an increase of 12.6% from the November 15th total of 40,945,440 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,895,868 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 9.4 days. Approximately 19.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Noble's Current Options Chain.

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

Noble's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (15.56%), Vanguard Group Inc. (10.12%), Vanguard Group Inc (10.12%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.89%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.85%) and BlueMountain Capital Management LLC (1.63%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Noble.

NE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Panagora Asset Management Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, Penn Capital Management Co. Inc., Schroder Investment Management Group and Man Group plc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Noble.

NE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, University of Notre Dame DU Lac, Morgan Stanley, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, WINTON GROUP Ltd, BlackRock Inc., Fisher Asset Management LLC and Matarin Capital 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 $3.22.

Noble has a market capitalization of $846.51 million 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.

The official website for Noble is http://www.noblecorp.com.

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]