Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET) Stock Analysis
Energy · Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $46.98: Quality below floor (2.8 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10 and A.R:R 2.1:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.64; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum.
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies products serving the oil, natural gas, defense, and renewable energy industries in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Drilling and Completions; and Artificial Lift and... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $46.98: Quality below floor (2.8 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10 and A.R:R 2.1:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.64; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 4.7/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 33d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum. Suitability: aggressive.
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2 floor-breakers
Cyclical trough — margins compressed or negative. Profitability typically recovers with the cycle, but floor fires on current data.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $46.98: Quality below floor (2.8 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10 and A.R:R 2.1:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.64; Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $45.34. Score 4.7/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $56.95 (+21.2% upside). Prior stop was $45.34. Stop-loss: $45.34.
Quality below floor (2.8 < 4.0); Value-trap signals (2/5): Revenue declining (-9.0% YoY), High leverage (D/E 2.6).
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 17.1). TrendMatrix value score: 6.0/10. Verdict: Sell.
8 analysts cover FET with a consensus score of 2.3/5. Average price target: $67.
What does Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. do?Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies products serving the oil, natural gas, defense, and...
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies products serving the oil, natural gas, defense, and renewable energy industries in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Drilling and Completions; and Artificial Lift and Downhole. The Drilling and Completions segment designs, manufactures, and supplies products and solutions to the drilling, subsea, coiled tubing, well stimulation, and intervention markets, including applications in oil and natural gas, renewable energy, defense, and communications industries. This segment also offers drilling capital equipment and consumable products; subsea remotely operated vehicles and trenchers, submarine rescue vehicles, specialty components and tooling, and technical services; hydraulic fracturing pumps, cooling systems, and high-pressure flexible hoses and flow iron; wireline cable and pressure control equipment; and coiled tubing strings and pressure control equipment, as well as coiled line pipe and related services. The Artificial Lift and Downhole Segment designs, manufactures, and supplies products and solutions for the artificial lift, well construction, production, and infrastructure markets. This segment also offers products designed to safeguard artificial lift equipment and downhole cables; well construction casing and cementing equipment; customized downhole technology solutions, which provides sand and flow control products for heavy oil applications; engineered process systems, production equipment, and separation equipment; and a range of industrial valves. It sells its products through distributors to drilling rig contractors, offshore service companies, governmental organizations, and oil and gas operators and producers. The company was formerly known as Forum Oilfield Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. in August 2010. Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.