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Preston Caldwell
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Land Drillers See Improved 2Q Results, But Our Bearish Thesis Is Still in Place

Unsurprisingly, land drillers Helmerich & Payne, Patterson, and Precision all posted solid improvement in their second-quarter results, owing to increases in U.S. shale activity levels. Our fair value estimates and no-moat ratings for the companies are unchanged.
Rig counts for the three companies improved an average 6%, buoyed by an 11% increase in the overall U.S. horizontal rig count. Overall Tier 1 rig utilization has reached about 83% by our estimates--the highest mark since the fourth...
Underlying
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
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Preston Caldwell

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