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Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 878,500,000 |
| Shares Float | 874,480,000 |
| Shares Short | 29,450,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 47% |
| Institution Holdings | 86.38% |
About Halliburton Co
Halliburton Company provides products and services to the energy industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services that include stimulation and sand control services; cementing services, such as well bonding and casing, and casing equipment; and completion tools that offer downhole solutions and services, including well completion products and services, intelligent well completions, and service tools, as well as liner hanger, sand control, and multilateral systems. This segment also provides electrical submersible pumps, as well as artificial lift services; production solutions comprising coiled tubing, hydraulic workover units, downhole tools, and pumping and nitrogen services; pipeline and process services, such as pre-commissioning, commissioning, maintenance, and decommissioning; and specialty chemicals and services. The Drilling and Evaluation segment offers drilling fluid systems, performance additives, completion fluids, solids control, specialized testing equipment, and waste management services; drilling systems and services; wireline and perforating services consists of open-hole logging, and cased-hole and slickline; and drill bits and services comprising roller cone rock bits, fixed cutter bits, hole enlargement, and related downhole tools and services, as well as coring equipment and services. This segment also provides cloud based digital services and artificial intelligence solutions on an open architecture for subsurface insights, integrated well construction, and reservoir and production management; testing and subsea services, such as acquisition and analysis of reservoir information and optimization solutions; and project management and integrated asset management services. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is based in Houston, Texas.
General
| Name | Halliburton Co |
| Ticker | HAL |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Energy |
| Industry | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 48,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 34.20 |
| Market Cap | 23,139,700,000 |
| PE Ratio | 9.30 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.71 |
| EBITDA | 5,112,000,000 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 2.70 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 0.68 |
| Profit Margin | 10.90% |
| Operating Margin | 16.96 |
| Return on Assets | 0.10 |
| Return on Equity | 0.26 |
| Revenue | 22.9B |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.92 |
| Revenue Per Share | 26.01 |
| Gross Profit | 4,408,000,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.02 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 9.02 |
| Forward PE | 9.05 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 1.00 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 2.13 |
Dividend
Halliburton Co pays out a dividend of $0.70 per share, with a dividend yield of 2.68%.
HAL's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on December 26, 2024.
They pay out 24.03% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Dec 26, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Mar 27, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | $0.16 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | $0.16 |
| Jun 28, 2023 | $0.16 |
| Mar 29, 2023 | $0.16 |
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