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) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 31st. The oil and gas company reported ($0.43) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.45) by $0.02. The oil and gas company earned $279.41 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $263.19 million. Noble had a negative return on equity of 8.26% and a negative net margin of 79.51%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 5.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted ($0.36) EPS. 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.

Noble will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 21st at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 8332459653.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Noble's stock. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $10.00. On average, they anticipate Noble's share price to reach $6.2231 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 98.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Noble.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Noble in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 14 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Noble.

News articles about NE stock have been trending neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Noble earned a media sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

Noble saw a decline in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 44,535,384 shares, a decline of 5.3% from the December 14th total of 47,016,715 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,207,998 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.2 days. Currently, 18.3% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Noble's Current Options Chain.

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

Noble's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.95%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.87%), Contrarius Investment Management Ltd (3.52%), Van ECK Associates Corp (1.91%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.76%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.33%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Noble.

NE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Energy Opportunities Capital Management LLC, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Legal & General Group Plc, Sippican Capital Advisors, California Public Employees Retirement System, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and Virtu Financial LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Noble.

NE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Van ECK Associates Corp, Bank of America Corp DE, River & Mercantile Asset Management LLP, BlackRock Inc., WINTON GROUP Ltd, New York State Common Retirement Fund, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Westpac Banking Corp. 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 $3.13.

Noble has a market capitalization of $772.47 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]