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Halliburton’s Big Comeback? Why Experts Say Oil Services Are ‘Down But Not Out’ in 2025

Halliburton’s Big Comeback? Why Experts Say Oil Services Are ‘Down But Not Out’ in 2025

Oilfield Services: “Down But Not Out” After a Tough Year Halliburton, one of the world’s top oilfield services companies, has faced a challenging environment in 2025. U.S. shale producers cut back on drilling budgets as oil prices slipped (West Texas crude has been trading around the low-$60s reuters.com), and international projects largely stalled. This downturn hit Halliburton’s North America-centric business hard – the company even slashed its 2025–26 earnings forecasts by up to 25% earlier in the year amid the shale slowdown gurufocus.com. Industry-wide, rig counts fell and profit margins tightened, prompting talk of an extended slump for oilfield service
Occidental Petroleum’s Big Deal with Berkshire & What’s Ahead: Stock Performance, News and Analysts’ View (October 2 2025)

Occidental Petroleum Primed for Action Monday: Berkshire Deal, Oil Trends & Analyst Outlook Unpacked

Latest Stock Price & Premarket Movement Friday’s close at $41.20 stockanalysis.com left Occidental near the lower end of its recent trading range (roughly $40–46 in the past month chartmill.com). In technical terms, the stock is hovering just above a chart support zone around $40.8–41.1 chartmill.com. On that basis, Monday’s premarket session showed OXY little changed, following a flat oil-futures overnight. By contrast, broad markets (Dow, S&P) were expected to open modestly higher on the heels of the Fed decision and mixed economic cues. Given OXY’s recent vol and current price, any meaningful gap either way could be triggered by oil
Michigan’s Green Energy Boom: Utilities Hit 50% Renewables Target as Solar Grants Surge

DTE Energy Stock Poised for Breakout? Investors Eye AI Boom and $10B Grid Plan

Recent News and Company Updates This week DTE announced executive and community initiatives. On Oct. 21, it named Brenda Craig as Chief Communications Officer (succeeding Paula Silver). DTE also launched a winter assistance program on Oct. 28 to help low-income Michigan customers with heating costs. In Detroit, DTE is partnering on a major solar project – breaking ground Oct. 27 on a 165-acre “Solar Neighborhood” in Van Dyke/Lynch, the first of five planned solar fields for the city detroitmi.gov. These moves highlight DTE’s focus on community clean-energy and reliability efforts. On Oct. 16, DTE announced it will release Q3 2025
ProPetro (PUMP) Soars on Data Center Power Deal and Q3 Earnings Beat – What’s Driving the Rally?

ProPetro (PUMP) Soars on Data Center Power Deal and Q3 Earnings Beat – What’s Driving the Rally?

Stock Rallies on Data Center Deal and Earnings News ProPetro’s shares have been on a tear this week, buoyed by a one-two punch of bullish news. On Monday (Oct. 27), the stock jumped nearly 19% intraday after the company announced a breakthrough power supply contract with a Midwest data center operator investing.com. The deal, made through ProPetro’s PROPWR division, commits the company to provide 60 MW of on-site electricity via a hybrid system of natural gas generators plus battery storage investing.com. This is a significant strategic win – it establishes ProPetro as an energy supplier to a leading data infrastructure
Vistra (VST) Stock Skyrockets Past $200 on Power-Demand Boom – Can the Rally Last?

Vistra (VST) Stock Skyrockets Past $200 on Power-Demand Boom – Can the Rally Last?

Stock Performance and Market Context Vistra shares have jumped sharply this week. After trading around $185–$189 last Wednesday (Oct 22), VST jumped to $191.37 on Oct 23 and then to $201.47 by Friday’s close reuters.com finance.yahoo.com. That +5.3% one-day gain on Oct 24 came amid a broad market rally: tech stocks led the advance as U.S. inflation cooled, boosting Fed rate-cut expectations. Friday’s CPI report showed September CPI up just 0.3% (3.0% YoY) ts2.tech, and TS2.tech notes markets now see ~90% odds of a Fed rate cut at next week’s meeting ts2.tech. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 both closed at record
NV Energy Stock Holds Steady Amid Nevada Utility Turmoil

NV Energy Stock Holds Steady Amid Nevada Utility Turmoil

Stock Performance & Trading NV Energy’s stock is essentially flat this week, closing at $23.74 per share on Oct. 24, 2025 investing.com investing.com. The share price is right at its recent range (previous close $23.74, open $23.71, day’s high $23.75 investing.com) and no new 52-week high or low is indicated investing.com. In fact, the investing.com data shows zero price change (0.00%) on the latest quote investing.com. Trading volume is negligible (no fresh trades were reported on Oct. 24), and the 3-month average volume is only about 1.76 million shares per day investing.com. MarketBeat explicitly warns that NVE has been “marked
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Valero Energy Stock Skyrockets on Blowout Q3 Results – What’s Next for VLO?

Valero Energy Stock Skyrockets on Blowout Q3 Results – What’s Next for VLO?

Q3 Earnings and Stock Reaction Valero’s Oct. 23 earnings release dramatically beat expectations. Adjusted Q3 EPS was $3.66, well above analysts’ $3.05 consensus marketbeat.com reuters.com, on revenue of $32.17 billion. CEO Lane Riggs noted 97% refinery utilization – “refineries in the Gulf Coast and North Atlantic regions set new all-time highs for throughput” investorvalero.com – reflecting strong operations. The market applauded: Valero’s stock jumped about 3% on the news, trading near $166 in pre-market trading reuters.com. Notably, Valero’s refining margin (3-2-1 crack spread) averaged $13.14/barrel in Q3, up 44% from a year ago reuters.com, driven by robust diesel/gasoline spreads and
GE Vernova Stock Poised for Explosive Rally After $5.3B Deal and AI-Powered Energy Boom

GE Vernova Stock Poised for Explosive Rally After $5.3B Deal and AI-Powered Energy Boom

GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) – the energy spinoff of GE – is set to report Q3 results on Oct. 22 amid a flurry of bullish catalysts. The company announced on Oct. 21 it will pay $5.275 billion for the remaining 50% of transformer maker Prolec GE, fueling its fastest-growing Electrification segment gevernova.com reuters.com. At the same time, GE Vernova’s nuclear division struck a global alliance with Samsung/Hitachi to deploy its 300 MWe BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) – including a proposed five-unit deal in Sweden ts2.tech ts2.tech. These deals come as U.S. power demand is surging (driven by AI data centers
Transocean (RIG) Stock Comeback: Insider Buys, New Deals Spark Rally Amid Oil Sector Rebound

Transocean (RIG) Stock Comeback: Insider Buys, New Deals Spark Rally Amid Oil Sector Rebound

Key Facts (as of Oct. 20, 2025) Transocean Rallies on Insider Buy and New Deals Transocean’s stock has staged a modest comeback in mid-October after a slew of positive developments reignited investor interest. On October 16, RIG shares jumped over 5% in a single session as the market cheered news of insider buying, fresh contracts, and proactive debt refinancings ts2.tech. The rally was spurred in part by Frederik Wilhelm Mohn – a Transocean board member and scion of a prominent Norwegian oil family – accumulating 4 million shares (about $12.2 million worth) in the recent equity offering ts2.tech. Such a purchase
Duke Energy Stock Soars to Record High Amid Grid Modernization Boom – What’s Next?

Duke Energy Stock Soars to Record High Amid Grid Modernization Boom – What’s Next?

Record High on Robust Performance Duke Energy’s share price has been on a steady upswing, recently reaching a record high of $127.85 ph.investing.com. As of October 16, the stock hovers in the upper-$120s after a strong multi-week rally. It closed at $127.02 on Oct. 10 – then its highest level of 2025 ts2.tech – and pushed even higher in the following days. Year-to-date, Duke has returned roughly 15–20% ph.investing.com ts2.tech, dramatically outperforming the broader utilities sector. Over the past five years, Duke delivered about a 62% total return ts2.tech, handily beating many peer utilities and underscoring the company’s steady growth
Coal Comeback Sends Peabody Energy (BTU) Stock Soaring – Real-Time Update & Analyst Insights

Coal Comeback Sends Peabody Energy (BTU) Stock Soaring – Real-Time Update & Analyst Insights

Key Facts (as of Oct 3, 2025): U.S. markets are open (Fri Oct 3). Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) is trading around $31.0 per share (as of ~10:30 AM EDT), up roughly +5.9% on the day marketbeat.com. Trading volume is heavy (20-day avg ~5.4 M shares stockanalysis.com). Market Cap is ≈$3.9 billion stockanalysis.com. Key ratios: trailing P/E ≈28.8, forward P/E ~64 stockanalysis.com (reflecting squeezed near-term earnings); EPS (TTM) ≈$1.10 stockanalysis.com; Revenue ~$4.04 B (TTM) stockanalysis.com. Peabody pays a $0.30 annual dividend (~1.0% yield) stockanalysis.com (last declared $0.075 in Q3’25 investing.com). Financially, Peabody holds net cash (~$192M: $586M cash vs $394M debt stockanalysis.com) and book equity
Eos Energy (EOSE) Stock Skyrockets on Big Moves – What’s Fueling the Surge?

Eos Energy (EOSE) Stock Skyrockets on Big Moves – What’s Fueling the Surge?

Stock Performance: Rally Amid Heavy Trading The US market is open (Friday Oct 3), and Eos Energy (NYSE:EOSE) is trading strongly. On Oct 1 the stock closed around $11.37, a new 52-week high marketbeat.com. By Oct 2 it “gapped up” in pre-market trading from $12.37 to $12.96 and traded up to about $12.66 marketbeat.com. Overall, EOSE is up roughly 22% so far this week nasdaq.com. Trading volume has been robust – for example, 14 million shares traded on Oct 1 when the stock hit $11.57 intraday marketbeat.com. Year‑to‑date the stock has surged (up ~200% over the past 12 months investing.com),
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