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 0.3%. By the end of trading, Halliburton Company fell $0.95 (-1.9%) to $48.39 on average volume. Throughout the day, 7,955,828 shares of Halliburton Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9,748,100 shares. The stock ranged in price between $48.35-$49.34 after having opened the day at $49.20 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $49.34. Other companies within the Basic Materials sector that declined today were:
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), down 22.0%,
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), down 22.0%,
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), down 13.5% and
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), down 9.1%.
Halliburton Company provides a range of services and products for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas to oil and gas companies worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. Halliburton Company has a market cap of $45.3 billion and is part of the energy industry. Shares are up 42.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 19 analysts that rate Halliburton Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 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, 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.
- You can view the full Halliburton Company Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 16.7%,
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), up 16.3%,
Kimber Resources
(
KBXR
), up 16.3% and
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), up 14.3% , 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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) while those bearish on the basic materials sector could consider
ProShares Short Basic Materials Fd
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).
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