There Has Been A 2.86% Incline For Transocean Ltd (NYSE: RIG). So What’s Next?

Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG)’s traded shares stood at 31.86 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 2.32. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $3.24, to imply an increase of 2.86% or $0.09 in intraday trading. The RIG share’s 52-week high remains $6.88, putting it -112.35% down since that peak but still an impressive 21.3% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $2.55. The company has a valuation of $2.85B, with an average of 40.05 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 30.84 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Transocean Ltd (RIG), translating to a mean rating of 2.40. Of 15 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give RIG a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 12 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.1.

Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG) trade information

After registering a 2.86% upside in the last session, Transocean Ltd (RIG) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 13.68%, and -5.81% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -13.60%. Short interest in Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG) saw shorts transact 140.9 million shares and set a 4.59 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $2.8 and $2.8 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, RIG has been trading 13.58% off suggested target high and 13.58% from its likely low.

Transocean Ltd (RIG) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 9.67% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 9 analysts is 884.37M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 9 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 979.58M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 763M and 861M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 15.91% before jumping 13.77% in the following quarter.

RIG Dividends

Transocean Ltd has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-16. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG)’s Major holders

Transocean Ltd insiders hold 16.86% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 71.60% of the shares at 86.12% float percentage. In total, 71.60% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 73.12 million shares (or 8.9283% of shares), all amounting to roughly $391.21 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 64.85 million shares, or about 7.9186% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $346.96 million.

We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Transocean Ltd (RIG) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 24.84 shares. This is just over 2.83% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $80.47 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 23.91, or 2.72% of the shares, all valued at about 77.48 million.