With less than 2 weeks to go in Q2-2016 NOV has booked no meaningful new orders again for the 4th straight quarter. Yes NOV is trouble, they are going to have another horrific earnings call. And our CEO Clay Williams and his minion CFO Jose will get on the Wall Street call next month and bull#$@t once again because they are the spin masters. They will tell a story, no matter how bad things really are, and make it sound like NOV is in good shape. Clay’s famous words “I have to thank my fantastic management team for their effort”…. “We’re controlling what we can cost” Really?? why don’t you talk about your great sales force that lost that a big order to GE for Statoil??? Can you control that?
But the reality is Backlog will be reduced significantly, Cash will be down, product base margins %’s will be down again on reduced sales volumes, and net income....I mean "Net Loss" will be recorded again for the 9th straight month because the sales volumes are too low to support current fixed cost. NOV continues to be too top heavy and they are not cutting cost fast enough where it matter most with their highly paid executives who are sitting around doing very little. But the Wall Street analyst will just listen or ask easy questions because they are a bunch of pussies and are in bed with NOV management. They won't dare ask the tough questions or challenge Clay. But have faith the day of reckoning is coming.