NE — Noble Corporation plc

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About Noble Corporation plc

Noble Corporation plc operates as an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry worldwide. It provides contract drilling services through its fleet of mobile offshore drilling units. The company also operates drilling rigs, such as floaters and jackups. It serves its fleets in Africa, the Far East Asia, the North Sea, the Oceania, South America, and the United States Gulf of America. Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$52.00
Market Cap$8.44B
Float125.7M
Shares Outstanding159.5M
P/E (Forward)24.10
P/E (TTM)36.98
Price/Sales (TTM)2.80
vs. Analyst Target-3.8% to analyst PT
Profit Margin7.59%
Operating Margin (TTM)18.59%
Revenue (TTM)$3.02B
Earnings Growth (YoY)11.90%
Dividend Rate2.0%
Analyst Target Price$50.00 (11 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $964M -$3.98B -$25.5M $227M
2021 $848M $352M -$7.3M $34.6M
2022 $1.41B $169M $305M $370M
2023 $2.59B $482M $744M $917M
2024 $3.06B $448M $837M $1.12B
2025 $3.29B $217M $648M $1.10B

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $849M $42.9M
Sep 2025 $798M -$21.1M
Dec 2025 $764M $86.6M
Mar 2026 $786M $121M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership21.5%
Institutional Ownership89.5%
Short Float0.0%
% of All Funds Holding4.38%
Number of Funds Holding360

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$49.72Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$37.03Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$32.29Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$37.81Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$37.85Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$32.84Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$38.59Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$34.80 support 1.13x 2 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (20 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.56% 0.46% 60.00% 12.57% -3.53%
1 Day 1.18% 1.49% 55.00% 11.26% -5.51%
1 Week 0.17% 0.09% 50.00% 15.64% -14.27%
2 Weeks 1.52% 2.34% 60.00% 16.43% -22.56%
1 Month 3.14% 3.13% 68.42% 25.01% -23.63%

Next earnings: July 16, 2026 (51 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

Insufficient historical data for monthly seasonality analysis (requires 7+ years of data).

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday 0.36% 55.8% 231
Tuesday 0.15% 50.0% 256
Wednesday -0.06% 43.3% 254
Thursday 0.02% 51.2% 248
Friday 0.05% 51.0% 251

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 89.5%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 21.5%

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings18
Net Value-$23.5M
Net Shares Change-455,537
% of Float-0.4%
C-Suite Filings15
Clusters Detected2

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
Denton Blake SVP, Marketing and Contracts -$3.7M 3 3 sell
Kawaja Joey M SVP, Operations -$2.0M 1 1 sell
ALTING CAROLINE SVP, Ops. Excellence and Sust -$809,138.98 1 1 sell
Howard Jennie SVP, Gen. Counsel and Corp. Sec. -$607,105.436 2 2 sell
IPSEN MIKKEL SVP, Human Resources -$329,758.68 1 1 sell
Hirshberg Al J. -$263,087.5 1 1 sell
SLEDGE CHARLES M -$37,364.192 1 1 sell

Transaction Clusters

PeriodFilingsInsidersNet ValueSeniority
2026-02-17 – 2026-03-03 8 7 -$5.7M 7 C-suite
2026-04-30 – 2026-05-13 5 5 -$4.4M 4 C-suite

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2026-05-07 Kawaja Joey M SVP, Operations -$2.0M Transaction at $49.85, now +4.3%
2026-05-07 Denton Blake SVP, Marketing and Contracts -$1.5M Transaction at $49.31, now +5.5%
2026-04-30 Howard Jennie SVP, Gen. Counsel and Corp. Sec. -$126,974.936 Transaction at $51.08, now +1.8%
2026-04-30 ALTING CAROLINE SVP, Ops. Excellence and Sust -$809,138.98 Transaction at $52.75, now -1.4%
2026-05-18 Hirshberg Al J. -$263,087.5 Transaction at $52.62, now -1.2%
2026-03-03 Denton Blake SVP, Marketing and Contracts -$873,301.313 Transaction at $45.17, now +15.1%

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AI Consult Analysis

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