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10/3/2008 4:01 PM

Halliburton Company (HAL)

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The Company provides a variety of services, products, maintenance, engineering, and construction to energy, industrial, and governmental customers.

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Avatar fOOLSONPARADE (99.30) Submitted: 1/07/07 9:28 PM : Underperform Start Price: $28.89 HAL Score: -13.65

This past Thursday, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the War
Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007, which will impose stiff fines
(double gross
profits!) and prison terms (20 years!) on war profiteers. He is the
new chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, so we'll be seeing some
action on this pronto.

More info here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/5/191835/4654

I would rather sell my grandmother's bones on ebay than invest in Halliburton.

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Avatar danrm07 (61.02) Submitted: 2/14/07 7:45 PM

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I believe the division of Halliburton that builds most of the military related projects are in the KBR group that was spun off.

The energy services division is awesome. I'd reconsider.

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Avatar EngelvonChemie (61.92) Submitted: 2/16/07 2:42 PM

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Halliburton recently ranked dead-last in a perception survey of 60 companies.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-corprep070130-sort.html

Public reputation of this company clearly suffers though its hard to say how much spills over to the Street. Halliburton, though a publicly traded company, does not sell to consumers. They should however brighten their own image through shrewd advertising. Unfortunately, unlike major oil and gas, Halliburton does not have the deep pockets to launch such a campaign.

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Avatar fOOLSONPARADE (99.30) Submitted: 2/18/07 9:24 PM

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Maybe so but the general public and most investors do not make the distinction.

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Avatar riotshield (< 20) Submitted: 4/12/07 10:43 AM

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The "general public and most investors" don't matter when you have the kind of institutional interest Halliburton has.





The institutions that can and do make the distinction between KBR and HAL are holding over 80%, IIRC.






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