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Best Oil Field Services Stock for 2011 (SLB, HAL, NOV, BHI, WFT, GE, OIH)

With crude oil prices hovering around $90/barrel, exploration and production companies are expected to increase their spending in 2011 by about 11%, for a total of about $490 billion. Oil ...
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Schlumberger Earnings Just Meet Estimates (SLB, HAL, WFT, OIH)

Schlumberger N.V. (NYSE:SLB) reported third quarter earnings this morning and the short story is there were no surprises. Like competitors Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL) and Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE:WFT), onshore drilling ...
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Oil Field Services Firms’ Earnings are Good Enough (DO, NE, HAL, WFT, SLB, RIG)

How investors view the oil field services business depends a lot on whether a company is heavily involved in offshore drilling. Onshore drillers have seen share prices rise steadily as ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEG, BHI, BP, K, KKD, MBT, NAV, CRM, SLB, UTHR, VIP, WFT)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning: AEGON NV (NYSE: AEG) Cut to Market Perform ...
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Gabelli’s New Focus Five Picks (HSNI, MJN, AMTD, TIVO, WFT, CVC, KOF, STZ, MA, ESI)

GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL) is the parent of Gabelli & Company and is run by the very well known investment manager Mario Gabelli.  This morning came the release of ...
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Oil Services and the $40 Billion Iraq Opportunity (SLB, BHI, WFT, HAL, OIH)

Morningstar has issued a report this week for oil services operations calling the opportunity in Iraq as "one of the greatest capacity increases in the industry's history."  The analysis says ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BBY, CPSI, DTV, HAL, PALM, RIMM, SLB, SPLS, SYNA, WFT)

These are ten of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. ...
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Soros Fund Holdings

Yesterday Soros Fund Management Filed a 13-F outlining the fund's long portfolio as of September 30th, 2009.  The total value of the holdings reported in the filing is $6,198,089.  Twenty ...
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T. Boone Pickens & BP Updated Stock Holdings (ANR, APC, COG, CHK, CNX, DVN, FLR, FWLT, HAL, MEE, OXY, STR, SLB, SU, RIG, WFT)

This morning we got to see the new equity holdings of T. Boone Pickens, via his BP Capital Management, L.P.,  as of March 31, 2009.  Some of the higher stakes ...
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Trouble Continues in Oilfield Services (SII, HAL, WFT, SLB)

Well drilling and completion services just aren't paying off for anyone this reporting season. Smith International Inc. (NYSE:SII) reported diluted EPS of $0.44 on revenues $2.41 billion. After deleting a ...
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Schlumberger Sort of Beats Low Expectations (SLB, HAL, WFT)

The world's largest oilfield services company, Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE:SLB), reported earnings this morning. The resemblance to the earnings reports from Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) and Weatherford International Limited (NYSE: WFT) from ...
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Precision Drilling Wins With Grey Wolf Addition (PDS, BJS, HAL, WFT)

Precision Drilling Trust (NYSE:PDS) reported net first quarter 2009 earnings per common unit of about $0.26, off 62% from the same period a year ago. Revenues grew almost 31%, from ...
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Another Oilfield Services Firm Falters (BJS, HAL, WFT, SLB)

This is turning into a lousy week for oilfield services company. Today's really downbeat earnings report from BJ Services Co. (NYSE:BJS) follows on yesterday's weak reports from Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL) ...
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Halliburton, Weatherford Stumble (HAL, WFT, SLB, OIH)

Two of the largest oilfield services companies reported first quarter earnings today. Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) and Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE:WFT) both came in close to analysts' estimates, but that doesn't ...
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Good News in Oil Field Services Continues (NOV, HAL, WFT, SLB)

National Oilwell Varco Inc. (NYSE:NOV) reported a solid beat of analysts' estimates for the fourth quarter. After last week's surprising earnings from Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL) and Weatherford International Limited (NYSE:WFT), ...
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