Oil & Gas Equipment & Services

Haliburton's (NYSE: HAL) analyst meeting, held in Houston the last couple of days, highlighted the company's recent successes but also that they are not standing still. Despite having a clear market leading franchise in North America, HAL is essentially “tearing up” the model in unconventional...

In Oppenheimer's Morning Research Summary both Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL), and WuXi Pharmatech Inc. (NYSE: WX), have Outperform ratings. After attending HAL analyst meetings this week, Oppenheimer states that they "came away comfortable with our positive view of the stock (even for NAM...

ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil (NYSE: UCO) gained 5.64% on Wednesday, as crude oil traded higher on the unexpected decline in U.S. crude inventories. UCO closed at $11.98, and had a volume of 7.08M traded shares. ProShares Ultra Silver (ETF) (NYSE: AGQ) jumped 4.42%, and closed at $128.03, as...

The market may not have done very much in Wednesday's session, but Complete Production Services, Inc. (CPX) ended the day as a top-performing Zacks #1 Rank company with shares that gained approximately 6.76%. Volume surpassed 2.38 million shares today, compared to the daily average of around 1....

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), the world's second-largest oil services provider, said it is planning to boost capital spending in 2011 by as much as 20% from 2010's levels as the company searches for growth outside of North America. The Texas-based company is forecasting 2011 spending of $2.5 to $3...

Dawson Geophysical Company (Nasdaq: DWSN) released financial results on Wednesday morning that missed Wall Street estimates. Dawson Geophysical Company announced that its 4th quarter net loss narrowed to $1.4 million, or 18 cents per share, from a net loss of $2.1 million, or 26 cents per share, a...

Dawson Geophysical Company (Nasdaq: DWSN) today reported fourth quarter and year end results for fiscal 2010. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 ending September 30, 2010, revenues were $59,179,000 compared to $46,835,000 for the same quarter in fiscal 2009, an increase of 26 percent. The...

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), the world's second-largest oil services company, needs to jolt its international business if the company is to meet or beat the profit growth analysts are projecting. As has been the case with most oil services companies, Halliburton pointed to growth in North America as...

Chicago, IL – November 9, 2010 - Stocks in this week's article include American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), Complete Production Services, Inc. (NYSE: CPX), NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV), The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) and GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR). Kevin Matras explains...

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PHI, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHII) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Operating revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2010 were $135.7 million, compared to $124.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009, an increase of $11.5 million. Flight...

Dril-Quip Inc. (DRQ) reported third-quarter earnings of 69 cents per share, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. However, quarter's earnings increased more than 9% from the year-earlier profit of 63 cents. Total revenue increased 1.4% year over year to $140.1 million, primarily driven by...

Jefferies & Company Inc. has published a research report on Oil States Int'l (NYSE: OIS) following an impressive 3Q. Jefferies & Company writes, "OIS reported third-quarter EPS of $0.88 per diluted share, easily exceeding our $0.74 estimate and the $0.78 consensus. OIS posted $0.71 in the...

Bristow Group, Inc. (NYSE: BRS) reported FY2Q11 EPS of $1.06, “well ahead of our $0.82 and the average Street forecast of $0.74 as corporate restructuring resulted in a much lower tax rate than we anticipated,” J.P. Morgan reports. “We are raising our FY11 and FY12 EPS estimates to $3.42 (from $3....