Transocean Ltd (NYSE: RIG): Should Value Hunters Buy Stock?

Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG) price is hovering lower on current market day and dropping -0.80% below its previous close.

A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $4.36, with intraday deals fluctuating between $4.27 and $4.44. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 2.787. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $6.88 and 52-week low of $3.85. The stock added 2.00% on its value in the past month.

Transocean Ltd, which has a market valuation of $3.79 billion, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in January.

Technical indicators in stocks provide crucial insights into market trends, guiding investors with precise entry and exit points based on price movements for informed decision-making.On the technical perspective front, indicators give RIG a short term outlook of 50% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.

Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 15 analysts have assigned RIG a recommendation rating as follows: 3 rate it as a Hold; 12 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Transocean Ltd (RIG) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

The overview shows that RIG’s price is at present -1.09% off the SMA20 and 0.34% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 49.71, with weekly volatility standing at 3.42%. The indicator jumps to 4.30% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG)’s beta value is holding at 2.72, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.18. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $3-$12 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $5.5. Based on this estimate, we see that today’s price at last check is roughly 30.56% off the estimated low and -177.78% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $5.5, which is the median consensus price, and at that level RIG would be -27.31% from recent price.

An analysis of the Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 20.07 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 16.24 million.

Current records show that the company has 875.80M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 16.53% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 69.99%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-11-15, stood at 147.49 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 7.44. From this we can glean that short interest is 1894.00 of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in November fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 149.67 million. But the -31.89% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.

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