A New Growth Avenue for DryShips

This video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which industrials editor/analyst Brendan Byrnes and technology and media editor/analyst Andrew Tonner discuss topics across the investing world.

In today's edition, Brendan and Andrew discuss DryShips and its recent contract for a rig to drill off the shore of West Africa. The contract has a backlog of $67.5 million, and underscores DryShips' evolution from a dry bulk shipper to a drilling rigs company. Brendan likes that DryShips now gets over 70% of its revenue from its drilling rigs segment, which is more stable than the revenue that it gets from its dry bulk business.

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