HALLIBURTON COMPANY vs Woodside Energy Group Ltd, two Oil & Gas stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Economically these sit far apart in the oil chain: Halliburton provides fracking and completion services to producers, Woodside produces Australian LNG. Woodside nets 21.1% of revenue on production against Halliburton's 7% on services, and yields far more free cash, 20% against 5.85%. Halliburton earns the higher return on equity, 14.2% against 6.87%, its service model leveraged to activity while Woodside's LNG carries heavy development capital. Woodside trades at 13.2 times earnings, Halliburton without a clean multiple; both pay near-2% dividends (Woodside's varies). The pair prices a service provider against an LNG producer; Halliburton bills to drill and completes wells, Woodside owns and sells the gas, and the two share only their exposure to the energy cycle.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | HAL | WDS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $34.18 | $18.95 |
| Market cap | $28.7B | $35.9B |
| Sector | Oil & Gas | Oil & Gas |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +3.9% | — |
| P/E | — | 13.2 |
| P/B | 2.65 | 0.90 |
| P/S | 1.29 | 2.77 |
| EV/EBITDA | 9.2 | 7.8 |
| Revenue growth | -1.7% | +29.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 34.9% |
| Operating margin | 12.6% | 29.9% |
| Net margin | 7.0% | 21.1% |
| Return on equity | 14.2% | 6.9% |
| Return on assets | 6.1% | 4.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.4% | 7.8% |
| FCF yield | 5.8% | 20.0% |
| Dividend yield | 2.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.66 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 2.08 | 1.59 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.31 | 1.27 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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