NYSE:PACD - Pacific Drilling Stock Price, Forecast & News

Pacific Drilling trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PACD."

Pacific Drilling is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 18th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Pacific Drilling.

3 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Pacific Drilling's stock. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $5.00. On average, they expect Pacific Drilling's stock price to reach $5.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 197.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Pacific Drilling.

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

Press coverage about PACD stock has been trending neutral on Sunday, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. Pacific Drilling earned a news sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Pacific Drilling.

Pacific Drilling saw a decrease in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,330,000 shares, a decrease of 5.7% from the January 15th total of 1,410,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 313,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.2 days. Currently, 2.0% of the company's stock are short sold. View Pacific Drilling's Current Options Chain.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Pacific Drilling investors own include Enbridge (ENB), IBM (IBM), Actinium Pharmaceuticals (ATNM), Capricor Therapeutics (CAPR), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Genprex (GNPX), U.S. Auto Parts Network (PRTS), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP) and Dominion Energy (D).

Pacific Drilling's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (7.23%), State Street Corp (0.69%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.41%), UBS Group AG (0.05%), Barclays PLC (0.04%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.02%).

PACD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC.

PACD stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Barclays PLC, UBS Group AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc..

Shares of PACD 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PACD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1.68.