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The Two Great Survivors In Offshore

Thursday morning saw a tremendous spike in share prices of the two biggest deepwater drilling rig owners, Transocean (RIG) and Seadrill (SDRL). After so many months of bad news and dropping share prices, is it finally time to get back on board to these specialists? Well, let's say it's time to finally put them back on your long-term radar.

Transocean particularly shocked the street on their ability to beat every estimate out there on Thursday, with earnings of $865m, which translated to $0.95 a share, 17 cents above consensus. Seadrill also beat on revenue by a meager $10m, but based on Transocean's good numbers, the two are enjoying a strong bounce in the pre-market. With the spike today, are we ready to latch back on to either of these two?

There's a lot to decipher and digest in these names and a quarterly beat is the least of them. These two are the kings in very specialized ultra-deep water rigs and the trajectory of that sub-sector is what we need to assess before laying our money down. No need to get nervous that a $1.50 pop in RIG has suddenly taken the opportunity away in deepwater – if you are looking at either of these names, you know this is going to have to be a very long game.

So, let's look at the negatives first. With oil below $75, there is little incentive to initiate new and very complex deepwater projects. This is why Transocean avoided guidance for the rest of 2015, it cannot in any way guess at what revenues, beside the already…




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