How to buy W-and-T Offshore stock | $2.16

W&T Offshore, Inc is an oil & gas e&p business based in the US. W-and-T Offshore shares (WTI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. W-and-T Offshore employs 291 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$399.3 million.

How to buy shares in W-and-T Offshore

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3. Search for W-and-T Offshore. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: WTI. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
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6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of W-and-T Offshore. 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.

W-and-T Offshore share price

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W-and-T Offshore shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-30.

Latest market close	USD$2.16
52-week range	USD$1.07 - USD$5.98
50-day moving average	USD$1.7041
200-day moving average	USD$2.1936
Wall St. target price	USD$3.6
PE ratio	5.0508
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.394

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W-and-T Offshore price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $2.16 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-11)	N/A
1 month (2020-12-22)	-3.57%
3 months (2020-10-18)	N/A
6 months (2020-07-18)	N/A

1 year (2020-01-18)	N/A
2 years (2019-01-18)	N/A
3 years (2018-01-18)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-18)	N/A

Is W-and-T Offshore under- or over-valued?

Valuing W-and-T Offshore stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of W-and-T Offshore's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

W-and-T Offshore's P/E ratio

W-and-T Offshore's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 5x. In other words, W-and-T Offshore shares trade at around 5x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

W-and-T Offshore's EBITDA

W-and-T Offshore's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$172.7 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a W-and-T Offshore's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

W-and-T Offshore financials

Revenue TTM	USD$399.3 million
Operating margin TTM	10.3%
Gross profit TTM	USD$322.1 million
Return on assets TTM	2.6%
Return on equity TTM	0%
Profit margin	14.1%
Book value	$-2.383
Market capitalisation	USD$282.1 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting W-and-T Offshore shares

There are currently 19.0 million W-and-T Offshore shares held short by investors – that's known as W-and-T Offshore's "short interest". This figure is 4.5% up from 18.2 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting W-and-T Offshore shares can be evaluated.

W-and-T Offshore's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

W-and-T Offshore's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of W-and-T Offshore shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of W-and-T Offshore shares traded daily (recently around 3.0 million). W-and-T Offshore's SIR currently stands at 6.31. In other words for every 100,000 W-and-T Offshore shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6310 shares are currently held short.

However W-and-T Offshore's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of W-and-T Offshore shares, or, against the total number of tradable W-and-T Offshore shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case W-and-T Offshore's short interest could be expressed as 0.13% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 W-and-T Offshore shares in existence, roughly 130 shares are currently held short) or 0.2033% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable W-and-T Offshore shares, roughly 203 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against W-and-T Offshore.

Find out more about how you can short W-and-T Offshore stock.

W-and-T Offshore share dividends

We're not expecting W-and-T Offshore to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have W-and-T Offshore's shares ever split?

W-and-T Offshore's shares were split on a 500:1 basis on 29 January 2004. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 500 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your W-and-T Offshore shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 99.8% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for W-and-T Offshore shares which in turn could have impacted W-and-T Offshore's share price.

W-and-T Offshore share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, W-and-T Offshore's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.07 up to $5.98. 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 W-and-T Offshore's is 3.3393. This would suggest that W-and-T Offshore's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

W-and-T Offshore overview

W&T Offshore, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas producer, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico. The company sells crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas. It holds working interests in approximately 51 offshore fields in federal and state waters. The company also owns interests in approximately 146 offshore structures. It has interests in offshore leases covering approximately 550,000 net acres spanning across the Outer Continental Shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. As of December 31, 2019, its total proved reserves were 157.4 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of W-and-T Offshore is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 34.771% of W-and-T Offshore shares are held by insiders and 38.37% by institutions.

• How many people work for W-and-T Offshore?

  Latest data suggests 291 work at W-and-T Offshore.

• When does the fiscal year end for W-and-T Offshore?

  W-and-T Offshore's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is W-and-T Offshore based?

  W-and-T Offshore's address is: Nine Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX, United States, 77046-0908

• What is W-and-T Offshore's ISIN number?

  W-and-T Offshore's international securities identification number is: US92922P1066

• What is W-and-T Offshore's CUSIP number?

  W-and-T Offshore's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 92922P106