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) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 31st. The oil and gas company reported ($0.43) EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' 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 firm's revenue was up 5.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Noble's stock. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $10.00. On average, they anticipate Noble's stock price to reach $6.2231 in the next year. 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.

Media coverage about NE stock has been trending neutral this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Noble earned a news sentiment score of 0.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Noble saw a decline in short interest during the month of 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.2 days. Currently, 18.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Noble's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Noble include Patterson-UTI Energy (PTEN), 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) and Western Energy Services (WEEEF).

Noble's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 bought 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]