Seadrill Ltd (NYSE:SDRL) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 0.45% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $29.11.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $28.98, moving within a range at $28.685 and $29.32. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.635 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 5.45. Turning to its 52-week performance, $56.46 and $17.74 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SDRL moved 16.81% over the past month.
Seadrill Ltd’s market cap currently stands at around $1.80 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-12.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 365.73M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 355M and 377.94M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -2.47% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.35B, representing a -2.79% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SDRL is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend SDRL as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
SDRL’s current price about 6.62% and 17.51% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 67.36, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.15% and 4.29% in the 30-day chart. Further, Seadrill Ltd (SDRL) has a beta value of 0. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $28, forecast between a low of $28 and high of $28. Looking at the price targets, the low is 3.81% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 3.81%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 3.81% jump to $28 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Seadrill Ltd (NYSE:SDRL), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.63 over the past 10 days and 1.17 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 68.83 million shares.
The 4.86% of Seadrill Ltd’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 96.24% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 6.16 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 7.14. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Seadrill Ltd (SDRL) stood at 992.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5.07 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -42.12% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SDRL stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
