Transocean Ltd (RIG): Today's Featured Energy Laggard
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) pushed the Energy industry lower today making it today's featured Energy laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.8%. By the end of trading, Transocean fell $0.71 (-1.4%) to $48.49 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2,782,436 shares of Transocean exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,762,500 shares. The stock ranged in price between $48.46-$49.19 after having opened the day at $48.95 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $49.20. Other companies within the Energy industry that declined today were:
Houston American Energy Corporation
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), down 9.1%,
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), down 7.3% and
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), down 6.3%.
Transocean Ltd. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells worldwide. It offers deepwater and harsh environment drilling, oil and gas drilling management, and drilling engineering and drilling project management services, as well as logistics services. Transocean has a market cap of $18.0 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. Shares are up 12.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Transocean a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Transocean
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and revenue growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that we feel that the company's cash flow from its operations has been weak overall.
- You can view the full Transocean Ratings Report.
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