NOV Inc. (NOV) Stock Analysis
Breakout setup
Energy · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $19.64: Quality below floor (3.8 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.0/10. Specifically: High short interest: 14%; Elevated put/call ratio: 4.71; Below-average business quality.
NOV Inc. designs, constructs, manufactures, and sells systems, components, and products for oil and gas drilling and production, and industrial and renewable energy sectors in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Energy Equipment, and Energy... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $19.64: Quality below floor (3.8 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.0/10. Specifically: High short interest: 14%; Elevated put/call ratio: 4.71; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 50, MACD bullish. Score 4.0/10, high confidence.
Passes 6/8 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news boost analyst 0.50, news boost analyst cluster(3), earnings proximity 88d clear, semi cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: moderate.
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Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-03-18Item 5.02MEDIUMDeparture of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. Election of Director On March 17, 2026, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of NOV Inc. (the "Company") appointed Sanjay K.SEC filing →
- 2026-02-20Item 5.02MEDIUMNOV INC. | | | Date: | February 20, 2026 | By: | /s/ Peter F. Vranderic | | | Peter F. Vranderic Vice President * * *SEC filing →
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Revenue shrinking — -2.4% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $19.64: Quality below floor (3.8 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.0/10. Specifically: High short interest: 14%; Elevated put/call ratio: 4.71; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 50, MACD bullish. Prior stop was $18.41. Score 4.0/10, high confidence.
Take-profit target: $20.51 (+4.5% upside). Prior stop was $18.41. Stop-loss: $18.41.
Target reached (-3.0% upside); Quality below floor (3.8 < 4.0); Value-trap signals (2/5): High leverage (D/E 5.5), Material insider selling (8 sells, 0.19% of cap).
NOV Inc. trades at a P/E of 81.8 (forward 15.3). TrendMatrix value score: 5.9/10. Verdict: Sell.
24 analysts cover NOV with a consensus score of 3.6/5. Average price target: $21.
What does NOV Inc. do?NOV Inc. designs, constructs, manufactures, and sells systems, components, and products for oil and gas drilling and...
NOV Inc. designs, constructs, manufactures, and sells systems, components, and products for oil and gas drilling and production, and industrial and renewable energy sectors in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Energy Equipment, and Energy Products and Services. The Energy Products and Services segment offers drill bits and borehole enlargement products; independent drilling and intervention downhole tools equipment; frac plugs, frac sleeves, toe initiation burst port systems, and recyclable setting tools; electric submersible pumps, high viscosity pumps, and surface pumps; tubular coating and inspection services for drill-pipe and other oil country tubular goods; solids control and waste management equipment and services; data and digital solutions; precision-engineered drill pipe and drill-stem equipment; connectors and integral thread solutions, including conductor strings, surface casing, and liners; and composite pipe, tanks, and structures. Its Energy Equipment segment provides drilling equipment, such as land rigs, complete offshore drilling packages, and rig components; capital equipment, related consumables, and digital products for hydraulic stimulation, coiled tubing, and wireline services; marine and construction solutions; processing solutions for the separation and treatment of oil, gas, solids, seawater, and produced water production; flexible subsea pipe systems; cavity pumps, specialized mixers and heat exchangers; and reciprocating, multistage, and progressive cavity pumps, midstream products, including closures, transfer pumps, chokes and valves, as well as artificial lift support systems that include production BOPs and stuffing boxes. The company was formerly known as National Oilwell Varco, Inc. and changed its name to NOV Inc. in January 2021. NOV Inc. was founded in 1862 and is based in Houston, Texas.