Halliburton Company (HAL): Today's Featured Energy Laggard

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Halliburton Company (HAL) pushed the Energy industry lower today making it today's featured Energy laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Halliburton Company fell 64 cents (-1.5%) to $41.90 on average volume. Throughout the day, 14.1 million shares of Halliburton Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 11.2 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $41.88-$42.64 after having opened the day at $42.35 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $42.54. Other companies within the Energy industry that declined today were: Callon Petroleum (CPE), down 12.4%, VAALCO Energy (EGY), down 12%, Double Eagle Petroleum Company (DBLE), down 6.2%, and Blueknight Energy Partners L.P (BKEP), down 5.7%.

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Halliburton Company provides a range of services and products for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas. The company operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. Halliburton Company has a market cap of $38.99 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 22.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 21 analysts that rate Halliburton Company a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Halliburton Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the positive front, Comstock Resources (CRK), up 12.8%, Cal Dive International (DVR), up 10.7%, Adams Resources & Energy (AE), up 10.5%, and Clayton Williams Energy (CWEI), up 10.3%, were all gainers within the energy industry with Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras (PBR) being today's featured energy industry leader.

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