Nabors Industries (NBR) Q3 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Adjusted EPS
- -$1.24
- Estimate
- -$0.90
- Surprise
- -38.5%
- Score at report (before → after)
- 5.4 → 5.3/10
Revenue for this quarter isn’t shown: the reported figure hasn’t cleared TrendMatrix’s freshness and sanity checks yet, and consensus revenue isn’t tracked. EPS above is the available figure.
How the report landed
Nabors Industries (NBR) reported a wider loss than forecast — adjusted EPS of -$1.24 against the -$0.90 estimate (a 38.5% shortfall). TrendMatrix's engine moved from Buy (Wait) (5.4/10) to Sell at 5.3/10 after the report.
Coverage in the report window
- Nabors Industries Q3 EPS $(1.24) Misses $(0.90) Estimate, Sales $872.200M Beat $861.591M Estimate — benzinga, 2026-10-27
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates NBR Sell at 5.3/10.
2 of the last 4 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's -38.5% surprise compares with a +23.5% four-quarter average.
What supports the rating
- Sector modifier (Energy): +1.2
- Attractive valuation
What argues against it
- Earnings expected to decline ~65% (cyclical peak)
- V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=4.8)
- Leverage penalty (D/E 1.5): -0.5
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $81.32
- Price target
- $93.42
- Stop
- $75.63
- Upside to target
- +14.9%
- Reward-to-risk
- 1.8:1
Forward estimates sit below the trailing run-rate (17.8× forward vs 6.2× trailing) — consensus expects earnings to decline from here.
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-10-28 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
NBR at TrendMatrix's latest read
Energy results are commodity-price arithmetic first; the operational beat or miss is read net of what the strip already told the market.
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Drilling
- Market cap
- $1.24B
- P/E (fwd)
- 17.8
- P/E (ttm)
- 6.2
- 52-week range
- $44.04–$112.90
- Off 52-week high
- 28.0%
- RSI (14)
- 53
- Volume vs avg
- 1.25×
- Score today
- 5.3/10