Halliburton Company (HAL): Today's Featured Basic Materials Laggard
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) pushed the Basic Materials sector lower today making it today's featured Basic Materials laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 2.6%. By the end of trading, Halliburton Company fell $1.05 (-3.2%) to $31.71 on average volume. Throughout the day, 16.3 million shares of Halliburton Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 12.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $30.35-$32.21 after having opened the day at $32.11 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $32.76. Other companies within the Basic Materials sector that declined today were:
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), down 30%,
BMB Munai
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BMBM
), down 19.4%,
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), down 17.8%, and
China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources
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), down 13.8%.
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Halliburton Company provides various products and services to the energy industry for exploring, developing, and producing oil and natural gas worldwide. It operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. Halliburton Company has a market cap of $29.96 billion and is part of the energy industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.3, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 6.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 19 analysts that rate Halliburton Company a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Halliburton Company as a
. 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 and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
- You can view the full Halliburton Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 13.5%,
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), up 9.4%,
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), up 8.8%, and
Coeur D'Alene Mines Corporation
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), up 8.2%, were all gainers within the basic materials sector with
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) being today's featured basic materials sector leader.
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