Halliburton (HAL): Today's Pre-Market Leader Stock
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Halliburton as such a stock due to the following factors:
- HAL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $636.4 million.
- HAL traded 31,573 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 7:24 AM.
- HAL is up 2% today from yesterday's close.
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More details on HAL:
Halliburton Company provides a range of services and products to the upstream oil and natural gas industry worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.7%. HAL has a PE ratio of 10.5. Currently there are 18 analysts that rate Halliburton a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Halliburton has been 16.4 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Halliburton has a market cap of $36.0 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. The stock has a beta of 0.89 and a short float of 4% with 2.47 days to cover. Shares are up 8.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates Halliburton as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, attractive valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- HAL's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 14.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 14.8%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has exceeded that of the S&P 500 and greatly outperformed compared to the Energy Equipment & Services industry average. The net income increased by 13.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $793.00 million to $901.00 million.
- Despite currently having a low debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, it is higher than that of the industry average, inferring that management of debt levels may need to be evaluated further. Despite the fact that HAL's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 1.68 is high and demonstrates strong liquidity.
- Current return on equity exceeded its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of strength within the company. Compared to other companies in the Energy Equipment & Services industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, HALLIBURTON CO has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Halliburton Ratings Report.
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