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 results on Monday, October, 29th. The oil and gas company reported ($0.10) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.13) by $0.03. The oil and gas company had revenue of $1.44 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.52 billion. Weatherford International had a negative return on equity of 283.53% and a negative net margin of 45.58%. Weatherford International's revenue was down 1.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous 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.

22 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Weatherford International's shares. Their forecasts range from $0.46 to $7.00. On average, they expect Weatherford International's stock price to reach $3.2874 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 664.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Weatherford International.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Weatherford International in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Weatherford International.

Media stories about WFT stock have been trending somewhat negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Weatherford International earned a media sentiment score of -1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is very likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Weatherford International saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 128,357,787 shares, an increase of 1.5% from the November 15th total of 130,354,378 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 29,639,932 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.3 days. Currently, 12.9% 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 NOW (DNOW), Dril-Quip (DRQ), Oil States International (OIS), Newpark Resources (NR), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), QS Energy (QSEP), Deep Down (DPDW) and Freestone Resources (FSNR).

Weatherford International's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.54%), Vanguard Group Inc (8.54%), Dodge & Cox (8.31%), Dodge & Cox (8.31%), Capital World Investors (4.09%) and Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (3.46%). 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 Capital World Investors, Legal & General Group Plc, TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC, Gamco Investors INC. ET AL, Bank of Montreal Can, Mitchell Group Inc., Teachers Advisors LLC and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 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 Mackenzie Financial Corp, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Scopia Capital Management LP, Poplar Forest Capital LLC, Nordea Investment Management AB, Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management LP, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC and Prescott Group Capital Management L.L.C.. 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 $0.43.

Weatherford International has a market capitalization of $456.72 million 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]