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The world's largest oil field services firm, Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) issued an update on fourth-quarter operations that lowers the company's earnings per share (EPS) forecast by $0.05 to $0 ...

Schlumberger has the highest cash king margins of the listed companies, at 5.1%, but its margins are less than half of what they were five years ago. Baker Hughes and Weatherford are in the ...

Sure enough, Schlumberger repurchased a large amount of stock in 2007 and 2008, when shares were fairly high, and pulled back sharply in 2009, when shares were cheap.

Margins matter. The more Schlumberger (NYS: SLB) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders.

For the full fiscal year EPS are expected to come in at $3.62 on revenues of $21.75 billion. The main difference between Schlumberger and Baker Hughes or Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), which ...

Let's look at Schlumberger (NYS: SLB) and three of its industry peers, to see how efficiently they use cash. Here are the ROIC figures for each company over a few periods. Here are the ROIC ...