HALLIBURTON COMPANY vs SLB LIMITED/NV, two Oil & Gas Equipment & Services stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where HAL and SLB diverge most: on revenue growth, HAL reads +0.6% and SLB reads -0.3%; on implied growth (priced in), HAL reads +0.4% and SLB reads +13.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's HAL price has a different growth bar priced in than SLB (+0.4% implied for HAL vs +13.1% for SLB); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What HAL's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What SLB's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | HAL | SLB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $32.24 | $49.60 |
| Market cap | $27.0B | $75.1B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +0.4% | +13.1% |
| P/E | — | 21.9 |
| P/B | 2.44 | 2.75 |
| P/S | 1.21 | 2.09 |
| EV/EBITDA | 8.6 | 30.5 |
| Revenue growth | +0.6% | -0.3% |
| Operating margin | 13.6% | — |
| Net margin | 7.2% | 9.3% |
| Return on equity | 14.5% | 12.2% |
| Return on assets | 6.2% | 6.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.4% | — |
| FCF yield | 6.4% | 6.2% |
| Dividend yield | 2.1% | 1.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.65 | 0.35 |
| Current ratio | 2.02 | 1.34 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.19 | 2.90 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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