Nine Energy Service, Inc. (NINE)Energy | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services | Houston, United States | NYSE American
8.75 USD
-0.17
(-1.906%) ⇩
(April 17, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 8.75 Short-term: ★★☆☆☆ | Long-term: ☆☆☆☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 11:34 p.m. EDT
NINE is a 0-star buy; the stock is trading at a valuation trap post-bankruptcy with negative EPS, negative operating margins, and a massive debt load ($382M) against only $18M cash. Recent price action shows stagnation near $8.75, fighting against significant resistance. The options data confirms deep uncertainty with no directional clarity, and there is absolutely no dividend yield to offset the dilution risk or capital loss potential. |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Energy |
| Revenue per Share | 13.733 |
| Market Cap | 122,062,496 |
| Forward P/E | -11.67 |
| Beta | 2.48 |
| Profit Margins | -9.13% |
| Website | https://nineenergyservice.com |
As of April 18, 2026, 11:34 p.m. EDT: Options flow indicates extreme asymmetry in speculator positioning. Call volume is heavily skewed to deep ITM ($3.0) strikes, which is consistent with short covering or non-directional hedging on a distressed stock. Conversely, massive put volume (348 contracts) is concentrated entirely in OTM strikes, suggesting no defined put writers, but rather speculative lottery-type buying on a crash or invalidation of current value. With a -54.3% distribution for OTM calls (0.00 vol) vs OTM puts, the market is pricing in significant downside risk rather than upside expansion.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.067073226 |
| Address1 | 2,001 Kirby Drive |
| Address2 | Suite 200 |
| All Time High | 10.5 |
| All Time Low | 7.32 |
| Ask | 10.25 |
| Ask Size | 4,000 |
| Audit Risk | 7 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 31,890 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 50,223 |
| Average Volume | 50,223 |
| Average Volume10Days | 31,890 |
| Beta | 2.484 |
| Bid | 8.0 |
| Bid Size | 400 |
| Board Risk | 5 |
| Book Value | -2.653 |
| City | Houston |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,735,603,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 5 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 8.75 |
| Current Ratio | 1.847 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,774,915,200 |
| Day High | 8.998 |
| Day Low | 8.5601 |
| Display Name | Nine Energy Service |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,761,922,800 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,761,922,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,778,187,600 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,778,187,600 |
| Ebitda | 34,804,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.06194 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 21.353 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 1.323 |
| Enterprise Value | 743,169,280 |
| Eps Forward | -0.75 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -1.25 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | ASE |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | (361) 826-5269 |
| Fifty Day Average | 8.600769 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 0.14923096 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.017350886 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 6.7073226 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 10.5 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -1.75 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.16666667 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 7.32 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 1.4299998 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.19535516 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 7.32 - 10.5 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,774,963,800,000 |
| Float Shares | 43,310,777 |
| Forward Eps | -0.75 |
| Forward P E | -11.666667 |
| Free Cashflow | 13,131,000 |
| Full Exchange Name | NYSE American |
| Full Time Employees | 1,072 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,775,001,600 |
| Gross Margins | 0.16826999 |
| Gross Profits | 94,551,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.010039999 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.20216 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 43,326,339 |
| Industry | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services |
| Industry Disp | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services |
| Industry Key | oil-gas-equipment-services |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Long Business Summary | Nine Energy Service, Inc. operates as an onshore completion services provider that targets unconventional oil and gas resource development in North American basins and internationally. The company provides cementing services, including blending high-grade cement and water with various solid and liquid additives to create a cement slurry that is pumped between the casing and the wellbore of the well. It also provides open hole and cemented completion tool products, such as liner hangers and accessories, fracture isolation packers, frac sleeves, stage one prep tools, casing flotation tools, specialty open hole float equipment, disk subs, composite cement retainers, and centralizers that provide pinpoint frac sleeve system technologies. In addition, the company offers wireline services consisting of plug-and-perf completions, which is a multistage well completion technique for cased-hole wells that consists of deploying perforating guns and isolation tools to a specified depth; and coiled tubing services, which perform wellbore intervention operations utilizing a continuous steel pipe that is transported to the wellsite wound on a large spool. The company was formerly known as NSC-Tripoint, Inc. and changed its name to Nine Energy Service, Inc. in October 2011. Nine Energy Service, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. |
| Long Name | Nine Energy Service, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 122,062,496 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_232311079 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,767,139,200 |
| Net Income To Common | -51,322,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 122,062,500 |
| Open | 8.13 |
| Operating Cashflow | -7,306,000 |
| Operating Margins | -0.06068 |
| Overall Risk | 6 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | (281) 730-5100 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 8.75 |
| Post Market Time | 1,776,470,161 |
| Previous Close | 8.92 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | -3.298153 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 0.21722746 |
| Profit Margins | -0.09133001 |
| Quick Ratio | 1.033 |
| Quote Source Name | Delayed Quote |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | -0.17 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | -1.90583 |
| Regular Market Day High | 8.998 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 8.5601 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 8.5601 - 8.998 |
| Regular Market Open | 8.13 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 8.92 |
| Regular Market Price | 8.75 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,456,000 |
| Regular Market Volume | 27,807 |
| Return On Assets | 0.00074 |
| Revenue Growth | -0.065 |
| Revenue Per Share | 13.733 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.38150132 |
| Sector | Energy |
| Sector Disp | Energy |
| Sector Key | energy |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 8 |
| Shares Outstanding | 13,950,000 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.0025 |
| Shares Short | 35,514 |
| Short Name | Nine Energy Service, Inc. |
| Short Ratio | 0.43 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | TX |
| Symbol | NINE |
| Total Cash | 18,449,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.426 |
| Total Debt | 382,648,992 |
| Total Revenue | 561,910,976 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -1.25 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 8.600769 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 0.14923096 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.017350886 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 27,807 |
| Website | https://nineenergyservice.com |
| Zip | 77,019 |