Analysts Offer Predictions for Halliburton Q1 Earnings

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) – Equities researchers at Capital One Financial reduced their Q1 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of Halliburton in a research note issued on Thursday, January 23rd. Capital One Financial analyst D. Becker now expects that the oilfield services company will earn $0.61 per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $0.72. The consensus estimate for Halliburton’s current full-year earnings is $2.94 per share. Capital One Financial also issued estimates for Halliburton’s Q2 2025 earnings at $0.64 EPS, Q3 2025 earnings at $0.67 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.69 EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $0.67 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $0.74 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $0.77 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $0.80 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $2.98 EPS.

Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November 7th. The oilfield services company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.75 by ($0.02). Halliburton had a net margin of 10.90% and a return on equity of 26.03%. The firm had revenue of $5.70 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.83 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.79 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was down 1.8% compared to the same quarter last year.

HAL has been the subject of a number of other reports. Wells Fargo & Company cut their target price on Halliburton from $39.00 to $34.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, December 17th. Evercore ISI cut their target price on Halliburton from $43.00 to $35.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, January 15th. Stifel Nicolaus cut their target price on Halliburton from $42.00 to $37.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday. BMO Capital Markets cut their target price on Halliburton from $40.00 to $38.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group dropped their price objective on Halliburton from $43.00 to $41.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 3rd. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and fourteen have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Halliburton presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $37.42.

Halliburton Stock Performance

NYSE:HAL opened at $27.83 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $28.81 and a 200-day moving average price of $29.99. The company has a market cap of $24.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.83, a PEG ratio of 3.58 and a beta of 1.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.62 and a current ratio of 2.05. Halliburton has a fifty-two week low of $25.51 and a fifty-two week high of $41.56.

Halliburton Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, December 26th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 4th were issued a dividend of $0.17 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, December 4th. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.44%. Halliburton’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 24.03%.

Institutional Trading of Halliburton

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its position in Halliburton by 0.8% in the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 20,630,361 shares of the oilfield services company’s stock worth $597,234,000 after buying an additional 172,505 shares during the last quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. increased its position in Halliburton by 10.4% in the fourth quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 18,530,937 shares of the oilfield services company’s stock worth $503,856,000 after buying an additional 1,748,763 shares during the last quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC increased its position in Halliburton by 2.1% in the third quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC now owns 5,742,352 shares of the oilfield services company’s stock worth $166,815,000 after buying an additional 115,504 shares during the last quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans increased its position in Halliburton by 22.0% in the third quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 5,520,383 shares of the oilfield services company’s stock worth $160,367,000 after buying an additional 995,649 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Franklin Resources Inc. increased its position in Halliburton by 244.5% in the third quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 4,513,560 shares of the oilfield services company’s stock worth $138,025,000 after buying an additional 3,203,224 shares during the last quarter. 85.23% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

About Halliburton

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.