Oil & Gas active stocks: Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL), McDermott International (NYSE:MDR), Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB), Weatherford International (NYSE:WFT)

Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL)’s stock had its “neutral” rating reiterated by Zacks in a note issued to investors on Thursday, American Banking News reports. They currently have a $63.00 price target on the stock. Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) stock performance was -3.29% in last session and finished the day at $57.36. Traded volume was 11.21million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 8.68million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.73. Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) insider ownership is 0.30%.

McDermott International (NYSE:MDR) was the target of a large increase in short interest in the month of January. As of March 14th, there was short interest totaling 44,016,074 shares, an increase of 20.0% from the February 28th total of 36,686,728 shares, Stock Ratings Networkreports. McDermott International (NYSE:MDR) dropped -2.97 percent to $6.86 Monday on volume of 8.33million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $6.79 to $7.06. McDermott International (NYSE:MDR) has a market capitalization of $1.63billion.

Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB) had its target price lifted by Societe Generale from $109.00 to $116.00 in a research note released on Friday morning, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports. Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock. Analysts at RBC Capital raised their price target on shares of Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB) from $110.00 to $115.00 in a research note on Wednesday, April 2nd. Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB)’s stock on Apr 07, 2014 reported a decrease of -0.44% to the closing price of $97.60. Its fifty two weeks range is $69.08 -$99.69. The total market capitalization recorded $127.51billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 7.56million shares. In its share capital, SLB has 1.31billion outstanding shares.

Oilfield services giant Weatherford International Ltd (NYSE:WFT) share price fell almost 1% on the announcement that its board of directors has approved the relocation its legal domicile to Ireland from Switzerland. On Monday, shares of Weatherford International Ltd (NYSE:WFT) dropped -1.62% to close the day at $17.03. Company return on investment (ROI) is 2.20% and its monthly performance is recorded as -0.23%. Weatherford International Ltd (NYSE:WFT) quarterly revenue growth is 16.25%.