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Helmerich & Payne is Among the Companies in the Oil & Gas Drilling Industry With the Lowest EPS Growth (HP, ESV, RDC, ATW, NE)
[April 19, 2013]

Helmerich & Payne is Among the Companies in the Oil & Gas Drilling Industry With the Lowest EPS Growth (HP, ESV, RDC, ATW, NE)


Apr 19, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Oil & Gas Drilling industry with the lowest year-over-year expected earnings per share (EPS) growth rates. The long-term growth rate is the expected annual increase in operating EPS over the next three to five years.Helmerich & Payne ranks lowest with a EPS growth of 13.0%. ENSCO International is next with a EPS growth of 16.8%. Rowan ranks third lowest with a EPS growth of 17.9%.



Atwood Oceanics follows with a EPS growth of 34.8%, and Noble rounds out the bottom five with a EPS growth of 41.5%.

SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Atwood Oceanics on February 26th, 2013 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $50.32. Since that call, shares of Atwood Oceanics have fallen 12.4%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.


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