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) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 31st. The oil and gas company reported ($0.43) EPS 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 net margin of 79.51% and a negative return on equity of 8.26%. Noble's revenue for the quarter was up 5.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm 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.

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.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Noble's stock. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $10.00. On average, they expect Noble's stock price to reach $6.2231 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 92.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Noble.

19 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 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Noble.

Media stories about NE stock have trended very positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Noble earned a news sentiment score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Noble saw a drop in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 44,535,384 shares, a drop of 5.3% from the December 14th total of 47,016,715 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,207,998 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.2 days. Approximately 18.3% of the company's shares 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), 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) and Western Energy Services (WEEEF).

Noble's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sippican Capital Advisors (0.11%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.06%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.04%) and Virtu Financial LLC (0.01%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Noble.

NE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sippican Capital Advisors, Virtu Financial LLC and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling for Noble.

NE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of Montreal Can. 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 $3.24.

Noble has a market capitalization of $799.61 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]