NYSE:WFT - Weatherford International Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Weatherford International trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WFT."

Weatherford International plc (NYSE:WFT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 29th. The oil and gas company reported ($0.10) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.13) by $0.03. The oil and gas company had revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.52 billion. Weatherford International had a negative net margin of 45.58% and a negative return on equity of 283.53%. The company's revenue was down 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned ($0.22) EPS. View Weatherford International's Earnings History.

Weatherford International is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 1st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Weatherford International.

20 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Weatherford International's stock. Their forecasts range from $1.00 to $7.00. On average, they expect Weatherford International's share price to reach $3.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 262.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Weatherford International.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Weatherford International in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Weatherford International.

Media headlines about WFT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Weatherford International earned a coverage optimism score of 1.0 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 stock's share price in the next few days.

Weatherford International saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 121,724,647 shares, an increase of 17.3% from the October 15th total of 103,800,177 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 30,023,567 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 12.3% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Weatherford International's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Weatherford International include Cactus (WHD), NOW (DNOW), Dril-Quip (DRQ), Oil States International (OIS), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Newpark Resources (NR), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), QS Energy (QSEP), Deep Down (DPDW) and Freestone Resources (FSNR).

Weatherford International's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (3.46%), Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management LP (2.33%), Schneider Capital Management Corp (1.41%), FMR LLC (1.25%), Poplar Forest Capital LLC (0.98%) and Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (0.80%). Company insiders that own Weatherford International stock include Angela A Minas, Douglas M Mills and William E Macaulay. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Weatherford International.

WFT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Gamco Investors INC. ET AL, Bank of Montreal Can, Mitchell Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Virtu Financial LLC. Company insiders that have sold Weatherford International company stock in the last year include Douglas M Mills and William E Macaulay. View Insider Buying and Selling for Weatherford International.

WFT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Poplar Forest Capital LLC, Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management LP, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Prescott Group Capital Management L.L.C., Schneider Capital Management Corp, Oarsman Capital Inc., First Trust Advisors LP and Channing Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Weatherford International.

Shares of WFT 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 WFT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $0.9658.

Weatherford International has a market capitalization of $1.13 billion and generates $5.70 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $-2,813,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.16) on an earnings per share basis. Weatherford International employs 29,200 workers across the globe.

The official website for Weatherford International is http://www.weatherford.com.

Weatherford International's mailing address is WESTSTRASSE 1 6340, BAAR V8, CH 6340. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at 41-22-816-1500 or via email at [email protected]