EdgeWater 10/22/2010 10:32:03 PM
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Energy Stock Rising (DO, CVX, BP, WFT)

Energy Stock Rising

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE:DO) surged 1.36% to $69.56. The company said yesterday that its third-quarter net income fell to $198.5 million or $1.43 a share, from $364.1 million, or $2.62 a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue dropped to $799.7 million, from $908.4 million.

Wall Street analysts expected net income of $1.34 a share and revenue of $796.5 million, according to a survey by FactSet Research.

The stock went down more than 30% year-to-date.

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) added 0.31% to $84.51. The company said Thursday it has sanctioned the $7.5 billion development of the Jack/St. Malo project, the oil major's first operated drilling plan in the Lower Tertiary area in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

The stock opened at $84.51 and traded within the range of $83.39-$85. The stock went up more than 8% year-to-date. The stock made its fresh one-year high of $85.

BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP) gained 0.52% to $40.86. Earlier this week, the company agreed to sell its upstream businesses and associated interests in Venezuela and Vietnam to its Russian joint venture TNK-BP for a total of $1.8 billion.

The stock went down more than 29% year-to-date.

Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE:WFT) advanced 1.16% to $17.48. Yesterday, FBR Capital downgraded Weatherford International from Outperform to Market Perform. The firm lowered its price target on the stock from $23 to $21.

The 52-week range of the stock is $12.34-$20.88.

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