Transocean Ltd. ended Friday at $5.20, which means the stock being offered for Valaris Limited is worth $79.22 per share using the set 15.235-to-one exchange rate. Valaris settled at $77.57. That leaves a $1.65 deal spread, or 2.1%, between Valaris’s price and Transocean’s proposed value.
Transocean Ltd shares dropped in late trading in New York on Thursday. Oil prices tumbled, and that hit the stock more than news of $185 million in new contracts for the offshore driller.
Transocean picked up 2.9% to $6.645 in Tuesday’s afternoon session, after hitting $6.715 earlier. The stock’s gain followed crude’s recovery, even as major U.S. indexes showed little direction. Brent crude climbed over 4%, landing at $104.13 a barrel.
Transocean Ltd shares climbed 1.4% to $4.35 on Wednesday, buoyed by strength across offshore drillers following a rise in oil prices. Valaris edged up 0.7%, while Noble rose 3.5%.
U.S. utilities stocks opened 2026 with a firm bid, pushing the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund up 1.2% to close at $43.18 on Friday, with about 20.5 million shares changing hands. U.S. markets were closed on Sunday.
Noble Corporation plc is having a rough Tuesday. Shares of the offshore drilling contractor were trading around $27.85 in Tuesday afternoon action, down roughly 6% on the day after opening near $29.28 and swinging between about $27.67 and $29.73. StockAnalysis