Investopedia: Better Operating Performance Should Let Baker Hughes' Value Emerge

Companies would do well to follow one of the fundamental precepts of medical ethics - "primum non nocere" (first do no harm). While there is little that any one company can do about the overall demand environment in a given quarter or year, there's a lot that can be done to at least minimize the damage. In the case of Baker Hughes (NYSE:BHI), it looks like a lot of the operating issues and missteps that bedeviled recent quarters have improved, and while the near-term outlook for energy services is not great, there's value here nonetheless.

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