FN2 Earnings Intelligence
Halliburton (HAL) earnings history
Halliburton Company (HAL) quarterly earnings scorecards, market reactions, transcript intelligence, and historical context.
Earnings History
Halliburton Company
Halliburton reported Q2 2026 revenue of $5.7 billion, up 6% year-over-year, with international revenue at its highest Q2 level in over a decade. EPS of $0.55 beat the $0.538 consensus estimate by 2.2%, and revenue of $5.71B exceeded the $5.50B estimate by 4.0%. Despite the beat, shares declined 6.3% on the session with 3.1x normal volume, followed by a further 5.1% drift over subsequent sessions. Q3 guidance points to flat-to-modest revenue declines in both divisions, though management expects margin expansion of 25-175 basis points. The chemical business divestiture introduces uncertainty into the Completion and Production segment's top line, while Middle East geopolitical risk persists. The stock now trades at $31.52, well below the analyst consensus target of $42.78.
Halliburton Company
Halliburton enters the year oriented around international and offshore growth rather than North America. Management's Q1 2026 message — a tighter global oil market, a multibillion-dollar YPF contract in Argentina (the first Zeus electric fracturing deployment outside North America), the closed Sekal acquisition, and a strong Guyana/Suriname offshore pipeline — supports a view that international momentum can persist while North America begins a recover. The market read the report positively: HAL rose about 4% into the event session against a roughly flat benchmark and subsequently drifted another ~12.7% higher, and the analyst consensus target ($43.11) sits well above the current price ($32.62). The bull case rests on technology differentiation, international margins and secular energy-security demand; the bear case centers on Middle East disruption, North America pricing pressure and…
Halliburton Company
The supplied analysis supports a cautiously constructive view of Halliburton’s longer-term trajectory: international activity, technology adoption, and the power business may offset near-term North American softness, but the thesis depends on execution and market conditions.
Halliburton Company
Halliburton's current analysis supports a more constructive operating narrative than the prior quarter: maintained guidance, North American execution, international wins, cost actions, and a new distributed-power opportunity offset a lower-capex outlook and external risks. The evidence supports monitoring whether savings and technology-led growth can persist without worsening equipment attrition or exposing margins to tariffs and weaker activity.
Halliburton Company
The quarter provides mixed evidence for a durable growth case: international contracts and technology adoption support the longer-term trajectory, but lower guidance, North American weakness and margin pressure raise near-term execution risks.
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