Take off with Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (DO): Get ready for trading

With 1.3 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.48 million shares. During the session, the Oil & Gas Drilling company that operates in wider Energy sector, reached to the highest price of $13.265 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $12.92. The 52-week range on DO shows that it touched its highest point at $17.32 and its lowest point at $10.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $18.57. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.30.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of DO was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.01%, but this was down by -1.79% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.45% while six-month performance rose 4.68%. The stock gained 19.35% in the past year, while it has gained 1.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DO yields -0.48 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.00. For the next quarter, that number is -0.03. This implies an EPS growth rate of 195.35% for this year and 384.65% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 102.32 million DO shares are outstanding with a float of 101.05 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-04-15, short shares totaled 4.83 million, which was 471.99998 higher than short shares on 1710460800. In addition to Mr. Bernie G. Wolford as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Dominic A. Savarino serves as its Senior VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.91929 of DO’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2023-12-31, DO reported revenue of $297637000.0 and operating income of $44635000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $73750000.0 and diluted EPS was -$1.42.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for DO since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.