Portfolio of Oil and Gas Drilling Stocks

Oil drillers drill for oil and natural gas on land and offshore. The amount of business activity for these companies depends on the price of oil and natural gas. As prices rise there is more business activity as new wells are drilled and existing wells are upgraded.

Most drillers are cyclical and their stock prices track the price of oil and natural gas. So it is best to buy them at the beginning of a new price cycle when prices are low.

Oil Drillers Stocks
Company	Symbol	10-Year Moving Average Chart*	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Services
Atwood Oceanics	ATW	Chart	Chart	Table	Offshore drilling and services.
Diamond Offshore Drilling	DO	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling of deep water offshore oil and gas wells.
Ensco International	ESV	Chart	Chart	Table	Offshore contract drilling and marine transportation operations.
Helmerich & Payne	HP	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling of oil and gas wells - marine and land.
Nabors Industries	NBR	Chart	Chart	Table	Land and marine contract drilling and services.
Noble	NE	Chart	Chart	Table	Marine contract drilling services
Parker Drilling	PKD	Chart	Chart	Table	Marine contract drilling services.
Patterson-UTI Energy	PTEN	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling services.
Precision Drilling	PDS	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling, supplies and services.
Pride International	PDE	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling and related services.
Rowan Companies	RDC	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling and builds jack-up drilling rigs.
Transocean	RIG	Chart	Chart	Table	Marine contract drilling and services.
Unit	UNT	Chart	Chart	Table	Contract drilling services.

NOTE: * A stock with fewer than eleven years of price data from Yahoo! Finance will not display a 10-year moving average.

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To follow the day-to-day progress of the Oil Drillers portfolio, check out the chart below. It is updated each day, so the portfolio values are always current. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $769.23 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 13 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001.

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Today's date: Mar-20-10.