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Weatherford International plc (WFRD)

Energy | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services | Houston, United States | NasdaqGS
99.03 USD -1.10 (-1.099%) ⇩ (April 21, 2026, 2:09 p.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★★☆☆ | Long-term: ★★★★☆ | Dividends: ★★★☆☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 11:28 p.m. EDT

Weatherford is a classic 'buy the news' long-term play rewarded by effective monetization and the successful redomestication news, yet near-term speculators are betting on a violent correction. The massive put buying at $70/$75 strikes suggests a 'finagle' scenario where the expansionary trade hits a short-squeeze expiry, forcing a profit-taking exacta. Hold the stock, but ignore the technical momentum; the options flow screams 'catch a falling knife' is the real play, not chasing the percent.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.060780
AutoARIMA0.061363
AutoETS0.061503
AutoTheta0.061506

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 80%
H-stat 0.41
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.362
Excess Kurtosis -0.82
Attribute Value
Sector Energy
Ex Dividend Date 2026-02-05
Last Dividend Date 2026-02-05
Debt to Equity Ratio 96.816
Revenue per Share 68.116
Market Cap 7,103,425,024
Trailing P/E 16.70
Forward P/E 14.11
Beta 0.79
Profit Margins 8.76%
Website https://www.weatherford.com

As of April 18, 2026, 11:28 p.m. EDT: Options flow is highly skewed toward protective put buying. Near-term (May/July 2026), huge open interest and volume spikes are visible in deep OTM puts at $70 and $75, indicating a strong fear of a crash or defending against earnings volatility. Conversely, significant volume and open interest are also piled up at high strikes ($115, $120) in calls, suggesting there is downside protection in place, but the recent price surge from $90 to $102.36 suggests bullishness is currently dominating, though speculators are hedging aggressively for a potential reversal.


Dividend Data

Yield Summary
Last Yield 1yr Yield 3yr Avg 5yr Avg
0.26% 1.65%
Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-02-06 0.275 0.260639
2025-11-06 0.250 0.351836
2025-08-06 0.250 0.455369
2025-05-06 0.250 0.577865
2025-02-21 0.250 0.388060
2024-11-06 0.250 0.284641
2024-08-13 0.250 0.238167
Additional Data
dividendRate 1.1
dividendYield 1.1
exDividendDate 2026-02-06
trailingAnnualDividendRate 1.0
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.009987017
lastDividendValue 0.275
lastDividendDate 2026-02-06
dividendDate 2026-03-05

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 1.2265954
Address1 2,000 St. James Place
All Time High 135.0
All Time Low 5.45
Ask 107.09
Ask Size 2
Audit Risk 3
Average Analyst Rating 1.8 - Buy
Average Daily Volume10 Day 1,230,480
Average Daily Volume3 Month 1,345,059
Average Volume 1,345,059
Average Volume10Days 1,230,480
Beta 0.794
Bid 93.24
Bid Size 2
Board Risk 2
Book Value 23.729
City Houston
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,735,603,200
Compensation Risk 2
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 99.03
Current Ratio 2.194
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,774,915,200
Day High 102.9
Day Low 98.89
Debt To Equity 96.816
Display Name Weatherford
Dividend Date 1,772,668,800
Dividend Rate 1.1
Dividend Yield 1.1
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,776,861,000
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,776,861,000
Earnings Growth 0.271
Earnings Quarterly Growth 0.232
Earnings Timestamp 1,776,801,600
Earnings Timestamp End 1,776,801,600
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,776,801,600
Ebitda 1,011,000,000
Ebitda Margins 0.20557
Enterprise To Ebitda 7.748
Enterprise To Revenue 1.593
Enterprise Value 7,833,082,368
Eps Current Year 5.3551
Eps Forward 7.01895
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 5.93
Esg Populated 0
Ex Dividend Date 1,770,336,000
Exchange NMS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 97.5864
Fifty Day Average Change 1.4435959
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.014793002
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 122.65954
Fifty Two Week High 110.57
Fifty Two Week High Change -11.540001
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.104368284
Fifty Two Week Low 40.115
Fifty Two Week Low Change 58.914997
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 1.4686525
Fifty Two Week Range 40.115 - 110.57
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,609,770,600,000
Float Shares 70,126,180
Forward Eps 7.01895
Forward P E 14.108948
Free Cashflow 383,375,008
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGS
Full Time Employees 16,700
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,775,001,600
Gross Margins 0.31192
Gross Profits 1,534,000,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.02246
Held Percent Institutions 1.00988
Implied Shares Outstanding 71,730,034
Industry Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Industry Disp Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Industry Key oil-gas-equipment-services
Ipo Expected Date 2,021-06-02
Ir Website http://www.weatherford.com/AboutWeatherford/InvestorRelations/
Is Earnings Date Estimate 0
Language en-US
Last Dividend Date 1,770,336,000
Last Dividend Value 0.275
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,139,200
Long Business Summary Weatherford International plc, an energy services company, provides equipment and services for the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil, geothermal, and natural gas wells worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Drilling and Evaluation; Well Construction and Completions; and Production and Intervention. It offers managed pressure drilling; directional drilling services, and logging and measurement services while drilling; services related to rotary-steerable systems, high temperature and high pressure sensors, drilling reamers, and circulation subs; open-hole and cased-hole logging services; wireline and drilling fluids; and intervention and remediation services. The company also provides tubular handling, management, and connection services; cementing products, including plugs, float and stage equipment, and torque-and-drag reduction technology for zonal isolation; completion tools, such as safety valves, production packers, downhole reservoir monitoring, flow control, isolation packers, multistage fracturing systems and sand-control technologies; liner hangers to suspend a casing string in high-temperature and high-pressure wells; and well Services. In addition, it offers re-entry, fishing, and well abandonment services, as well as patented downhole tools, tubular-handling equipment, pressure-control equipment, and drill pipe and tubulars; artificial lift systems, including reciprocating rod, progressing cavity pumping, and related automation and control systems, as well as gas, hydraulic, plunger, and hybrid lift systems, as well as related automation and control systems; and software, automation and flow measurement solutions. Further, it provides electrical and hydraulic power transmission to subsea equipment; and pressure pumping and reservoir stimulation services, such as acidizing, fracturing, cementing, and coiled-tubing intervention. The company was incorporated in 1972 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Long Name Weatherford International plc
Market us_market
Market Cap 7,103,425,024
Market State REGULAR
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_553033
Most Recent Quarter 1,767,139,200
Net Income To Common 431,000,000
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 7,181,082,587
Number Of Analyst Opinions 12
Open 101.55
Operating Cashflow 676,000,000
Operating Margins 0.15981
Overall Risk 2
Payout Ratio 0.16860001
Peg Ratio 2.08
Phone 713 836 4000
Previous Close 100.13
Price Eps Current Year 18.492651
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 4.173374
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 1.4443727
Profit Margins 0.08764
Quick Ratio 1.491
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key buy
Recommendation Mean 1.83333
Region US
Regular Market Change -1.0999985
Regular Market Change Percent -1.0985703
Regular Market Day High 102.9
Regular Market Day Low 98.89
Regular Market Day Range 98.89 - 102.9
Regular Market Open 101.55
Regular Market Previous Close 100.13
Regular Market Price 99.03
Regular Market Time 1,776,794,950
Regular Market Volume 587,347
Return On Assets 0.08979999
Return On Equity 0.30681
Revenue Growth -0.039
Revenue Per Share 68.116
Sand P52 Week Change 0.34445214
Sector Energy
Sector Disp Energy
Sector Key energy
Share Holder Rights Risk 4
Shares Outstanding 71,717,593
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.069299996
Shares Short 4,970,139
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,772,150,400
Shares Short Prior Month 4,744,682
Short Name Weatherford International plc
Short Percent Of Float 0.08979999
Short Ratio 2.95
Source Interval 15
State TX
Symbol WFRD
Target High Price 121.0
Target Low Price 83.0
Target Mean Price 111.25
Target Median Price 115.0
Total Cash 987,000,000
Total Cash Per Share 13.762
Total Debt 1,642,000,000
Total Revenue 4,918,000,128
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 1.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.009987017
Trailing Eps 5.93
Trailing P E 16.699831
Trailing Peg Ratio 2.0362
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 76.8723
Two Hundred Day Average Change 22.1577
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.28824037
Type Disp Equity
Volume 587,347
Website https://www.weatherford.com
Zip 77,056