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Preston Caldwell
EUR 100.00 For Business Accounts Only

H&P's Q1 Sees Best Operating Margin in Almost Four Years

No-moat Helmerich & Payne had an excellent first quarter. Although revenue slipped by 3% sequentially, adjusted operating margin improved to 12% from 7% previously following stronger pricing. This is the company's best operating margin in almost four years (since Q2 2015). Nevertheless, our bearish long-term view for land drillers remains, and therefore our fair value estimate is unchanged at $42,00.
Helmerich & Payne's largest segment, U.S. Land, drove the bulk of the improvement, with ...
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Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Helmerich & Payne provides drilling services and technologies for oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company's contract drilling business segments are: United States Land, which operates in Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming; Offshore, which operates in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico; and International Land, which has rigs in Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. The company's drilling technology-based business segment, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, is focused on developing, promoting and commercializing technologies designed to improve the drilling operations.

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Morningstar
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Preston Caldwell

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