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. traded little changed Friday, while Valaris Ltd. saw modest gains. Valaris finished at a 2.2% discount to the value of Transocean’s fixed-share bid. Annualized, the spread works out to roughly 10% if the deal closes by the earliest date indicated by the current U.S. antitrust schedule.
Transocean Ltd. shares climbed more than 4% on Wednesday, outpacing a weaker broader market as oil-service stocks drew buyers after crude prices jumped and investors picked through fresh company filings. The stock closed at $5.23, up 4.18%, at 4 p.m. ET, according to the company’s quote page.
Transocean Ltd fell 0.5% to $4.87 on Wednesday. The move comes after the company announced a rig deal worth over $1 billion in Norway, which added to its backlog but didn’t deliver the big dayrate hike some expected. Volume came in at 47.86 million shares, topping the average of 33.91 million. Market cap stood at $5.41 billion at the close.
Transocean Ltd. fell Tuesday as most oil-service stocks stayed up. The offshore driller has a big backlog, but the shares keep acting like a leveraged play on daily rig rates and crude volatility.
Transocean Ltd. dropped 1.6% to $5.04 by late Monday. Trading was heavy, with 36.4 million shares traded, putting dollar volume around $184 million. That’s about 3.2% of the company’s market cap and ahead of the same day turnover rates for Noble Corp. Plc, Valaris Ltd., and Seadrill Ltd..
Transocean Ltd. shares dropped on Wednesday after oil prices tumbled, sending offshore drilling stocks lower. The slide took out demand for some energy service names, pressuring the sector.
Transocean Ltd. starts the week facing pressure after NYSE shares dropped to $5.31 in the last session. That puts the offshore driller down around 12% since the June 12 close ahead of the Juneteenth holiday. The Thursday low of $5.14 is the level traders are watching for RIG when markets open on Monday.
Transocean Ltd. heads into the long U.S. holiday weekend under pressure, with shares sagging after Thursday’s drop wiped out gains from new contract awards. RIG ended Thursday off 4.8% at $5.31. U.S. equity markets are shut Friday for Juneteenth National Independence Day.
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 Ltd. shares slipped on Wednesday even as oil prices climbed, leaving the offshore driller out of step with a crude-led move in parts of the energy market. RIG was last at $6.18, down 7.5 cents, with about 36.0 million shares traded after the regular New York session.
Transocean Ltd. shares saw little movement late Tuesday as a new Australian rig contract offered investors one more small sign in the ongoing offshore drilling recovery.
Transocean Ltd. heads into the holiday week with its shares little changed. The stock slipped after an earlier rise, with oil prices up and down and deal activity heavy. Merger risk weighed on investors.
Transocean Ltd. shares tumbled 9.16% Tuesday, closing at $6.25, after the company posted an adjusted first-quarter loss. Losses overshadowed gains in revenue and stronger rig utilization, despite about $1.6 billion in new contract wins. Shares nudged slightly higher after the bell.
Transocean Ltd. has redeployed its Equinox rig for Beach Energy in the offshore Otway Basin, Australia—just ahead of the company’s upcoming first-quarter earnings and its next fleet status update.
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 slipped 3.5 cents to $6.28 late Thursday in U.S. trading, holding up better than most even as Wall Street sold off after new tanker attacks in the Gulf pushed crude prices sharply higher. Energy stood out as the only S&P 500 sector to finish in the green. WTI crude surged 9.7%, and Brent briefly hit $100 a barrel.