How to buy Nine Energy Service stock | $2.75

Nine Energy Service, Inc is an oil & gas equipment & services business based in the US. Nine Energy Service shares (NINE) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Nine Energy Service employs 1,469 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$412.3 million.

How to buy shares in Nine Energy Service

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Nine Energy Service. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: NINE. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Nine Energy Service reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$2.75, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Nine Energy Service, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Nine Energy Service. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Nine Energy Service share price

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Nine Energy Service shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-25.

Latest market close	USD$2.75
52-week range	USD$0.38 - USD$10.65
50-day moving average	USD$2.1937
200-day moving average	USD$1.7899
Wall St. target price	USD$1.79
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.46

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Is it a good time to buy Nine Energy Service stock?

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Nine Energy Service price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $2.75 from 2020-12-18

1 week (2021-01-08)	1.85%
1 month (2020-12-17)	-1.08%
3 months (2020-10-16)	116.54%
6 months (2020-07-17)	37.50%

1 year (2020-01-17)	-62.07%
2 years (2019-01-17)	-88.95%
3 years (2018-01-15)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-15)	N/A

Is Nine Energy Service under- or over-valued?

Valuing Nine Energy Service stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Nine Energy Service's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Nine Energy Service's EBITDA

Nine Energy Service's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$12.4 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Nine Energy Service's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Nine Energy Service financials

Revenue TTM	USD$412.3 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$168.4 million
Return on assets TTM	-5.52%
Return on equity TTM	-170.84%
Profit margin	-136.82%
Book value	$1.698
Market capitalisation	USD$88.7 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Nine Energy Service shares

There are currently 569,357 Nine Energy Service shares held short by investors – that's known as Nine Energy Service's "short interest". This figure is 39.7% down from 944,904 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Nine Energy Service shares can be evaluated.

Nine Energy Service's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Nine Energy Service's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Nine Energy Service shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Nine Energy Service shares traded daily (recently around 338902.97619048). Nine Energy Service's SIR currently stands at 1.68. In other words for every 100,000 Nine Energy Service shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1680 shares are currently held short.

However Nine Energy Service's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Nine Energy Service shares, or, against the total number of tradable Nine Energy Service shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Nine Energy Service's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Nine Energy Service shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0343% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Nine Energy Service shares, roughly 34 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Nine Energy Service.

Find out more about how you can short Nine Energy Service stock.

Nine Energy Service share dividends

We're not expecting Nine Energy Service to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Nine Energy Service share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Nine Energy Service's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.38 up to $10.65. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Nine Energy Service's is 3.7021. This would suggest that Nine Energy Service's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Nine Energy Service overview

Nine Energy Service, Inc. operates as an onshore completion services provider that targets unconventional oil and gas resource development across North American basins and internationally. It offers cementing services, which consist of blending high-grade cement and water with various solid and liquid additives to create a cement slurry that is pumped between the casing and the wellbore of the well. The company also provides a portfolio of completion tools, such as liner hangers and accessories, fracture isolation packers, frac sleeves, stage one prep tools, frac plugs, casing flotation tools, specialty open hole float equipment, disk subs, composite cement retainers, and centralizers that provide pinpoint frac sleeve system technologies. In addition, it offers wireline services consisting of plug-and-perf completions, which is a multistage well completion technique for cased-hole wells that consists of deploying perforating guns and isolation tools to a specified depth; and coiled tubing services, which perform wellbore intervention operations utilizing a continuous steel pipe that is transported to the wellsite wound on a large spool in lengths of up to 30,000 feet. Nine Energy Service, Inc. operates 47 wireline pumpdown units and 14 coiled tubing units. The company was formerly known as NSC-Tripoint, Inc. and changed its name to Nine Energy Service, Inc. in October 2011. Nine Energy Service, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Nine Energy Service is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 20.699% of Nine Energy Service shares are held by insiders and 50.741% by institutions.

• How many people work for Nine Energy Service?

  Latest data suggests 1,469 work at Nine Energy Service.

• When does the fiscal year end for Nine Energy Service?

  Nine Energy Service's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Nine Energy Service based?

  Nine Energy Service's address is: 2001 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX, United States, 77019

• What is Nine Energy Service's ISIN number?

  Nine Energy Service's international securities identification number is: US65441V1017

• What is Nine Energy Service's CUSIP number?

  Nine Energy Service's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 65441V101