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 $0.75 (-1.6%) to $45.08 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 17,231,278 shares of Halliburton Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9,636,400 shares. The stock ranged in price between $44.81-$46.66 after having opened the day at $46.09 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $45.83. Other companies within the Energy industry that declined today were: Houston American Energy Corporation ( HUSA), down 7.9%, Endeavour International ( END), down 5.1%, Mexco Energy Corporation ( MXC), down 4.8% and TGC Industries ( TGE), down 4.8%.

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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 $41.7 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. Shares are up 32.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 16 analysts that rate Halliburton Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 3 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 solid stock price performance, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. 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, Willbros Group ( WG), up 14.0%, Camac Energy ( CAK), up 11.1%, MagneGas Corporation ( MNGA), up 10.8% and InterOil Corporation ( IOC), up 9.9% , were all gainers within the energy industry with Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras ( PBR) being today's featured energy industry leader.

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