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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
HAL Halliburton	$22.69 +0.3%	$21.58	$18.72 ▼ $32.57	$19.32B	1.12	13.49 million shs	4,365 shs
HP Helmerich & Payne	$20.56 +1.7%	$16.84	$14.65 ▼ $37.46	$2.02B	0.87	1.99 million shs	800 shs
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	$5.76 +0.3%	$5.89	$5.12 ▼ $9.57	$2.20B	1.3	11.24 million shs	1,444 shs
WHD Cactus	$41.87 -0.1%	$42.94	$33.80 ▼ $70.01	$3.32B	1.48	711,590 shs	2,196 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
HAL Halliburton	+1.44%	+6.55%	-2.07%	+15.49%	-26.98%
HP Helmerich & Payne	+2.04%	+12.91%	+17.23%	+32.23%	-38.10%
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	+0.53%	+6.49%	-9.61%	+2.68%	-36.71%
WHD Cactus	+0.32%	+6.41%	-11.33%	+2.15%	-29.67%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
HAL Halliburton	4.9361 of 5 stars	4.3	5.0	2.5	0.9	2.9	1.7	2.5
HP Helmerich & Payne	3.5807 of 5 stars	2.0	3.0	2.5	0.0	3.1	2.5	1.3
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	4.1901 of 5 stars	4.2	2.0	1.7	0.0	2.4	1.7	1.3
WHD Cactus	4.1071 of 5 stars	2.1	3.0	2.5	0.0	4.3	2.5	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
HAL Halliburton	2.64	Moderate Buy	$32.05	41.27% Upside
HP Helmerich & Payne	1.92	Reduce	$22.20	7.98% Upside
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	2.45	Hold	$8.27	43.75% Upside
WHD Cactus	2.25	Hold	$50.75	21.22% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WHD, PTEN, HAL, and HP Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/20/2025	HAL Halliburton	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$20.00 ➝ $21.00
8/20/2025	HAL Halliburton	Melius Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$41.00
8/20/2025	HAL Halliburton	Melius Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$41.00
8/19/2025	HP Helmerich & Payne	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$26.00 ➝ $27.00
8/14/2025	HP Helmerich & Payne	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$20.00 ➝ $21.00
8/11/2025	HP Helmerich & Payne	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold
8/8/2025	HP Helmerich & Payne	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$23.00 ➝ $24.00
8/4/2025	WHD Cactus	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$53.00 ➝ $52.00
8/1/2025	WHD Cactus	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$57.00 ➝ $53.00
7/29/2025	PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$8.00 ➝ $7.00
7/28/2025	HAL Halliburton	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Overweight ➝ Neutral	$25.00

(Data available from 8/29/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
HAL Halliburton	$22.23B	0.87	$4.31 per share	5.26	$12.37 per share	1.83
HP Helmerich & Payne	$2.76B	0.74	$8.00 per share	2.57	$28.83 per share	0.71
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	$5.38B	0.41	$5.38 per share	1.07	$8.69 per share	0.66
WHD Cactus	$1.13B	2.96	$3.87 per share	10.83	$16.89 per share	2.48

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
HAL Halliburton	$2.50B	$2.14	10.59	7.77	3.90	8.37%	21.45%	8.85%	11/6/2025 (Estimated)
HP Helmerich & Payne	$344.17M	-$0.33	N/A	6.57	N/A	-0.90%	5.81%	2.67%	11/12/2025 (Estimated)
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	-$968.03M	-$2.76	N/A	33.85	N/A	-21.49%	-1.94%	-1.16%	10/22/2025 (Estimated)
WHD Cactus	$185.41M	$2.65	15.69	13.00	3.93	16.19%	17.34%	12.69%	10/29/2025 (Estimated)

Latest WHD, PTEN, HAL, and HP Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/6/2025	Q3 2025	HP Helmerich & Payne	$0.20	$0.22	+$0.02	-$1.64	$1.00 billion	$1.04 billion
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	WHD Cactus	$0.67	$0.66	-$0.01	$0.59	$280.28 million	$273.58 million
7/23/2025	Q2 2025	PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	-$0.04	-$0.06	-$0.02	-$0.13	$1.24 billion	$1.22 billion
7/22/2025	Q2 2025	HAL Halliburton	$0.55	$0.55	N/A	$0.55	$5.43 billion	$5.51 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
HAL Halliburton	$0.68	3.00%	N/A	31.78%	4 Years
HP Helmerich & Payne	$1.00	4.86%	N/A	N/A	N/A
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	$0.32	5.56%	N/A	N/A	N/A
WHD Cactus	$0.52	1.24%	N/A	19.62%	4 Years

Latest WHD, PTEN, HAL, and HP Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/13/2025	HAL Halliburton	quarterly	$0.17	3.21%	9/3/2025	9/3/2025	9/24/2025
7/30/2025	WHD Cactus	quarterly	$0.14	1.2%	8/29/2025	8/29/2025	9/18/2025
7/23/2025	PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	quarterly	$0.08	5.3%	9/2/2025	9/2/2025	9/15/2025
6/3/2025	HP Helmerich & Payne	quarterly	$0.25	6.1%	8/15/2025	8/15/2025	8/29/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
HAL Halliburton	0.68	2.00	1.47
HP Helmerich & Payne	0.76	1.84	1.43
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	0.37	1.73	1.50
WHD Cactus	0.01	4.85	3.48

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
HAL Halliburton	85.23%
HP Helmerich & Payne	96.05%
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	97.91%
WHD Cactus	85.11%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
HAL Halliburton	0.56%
HP Helmerich & Payne	4.51%
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	2.40%
WHD Cactus	13.75%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
HAL Halliburton	48,000	852.60 million	847.83 million	Optionable
HP Helmerich & Payne	6,200	99.44 million	94.96 million	Optionable
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy	9,200	385.17 million	375.92 million	Optionable
WHD Cactus	1,600	79.83 million	68.86 million	Optionable

WHD, PTEN, HAL, and HP Headlines

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Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Bought by Ceredex Value Advisors LLC

4 hours ago | marketbeat.com

Makaira Partners LLC Lowers Stake in Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 28 at 8:37 AM | marketbeat.com

Keeley Teton Advisors LLC Raises Stock Position in Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 28 at 8:18 AM | marketbeat.com

41,164 Shares in Cactus, Inc. $WHD Bought by Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC

August 28 at 6:30 AM | marketbeat.com

Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Bought by AlphaQuest LLC

August 28 at 5:34 AM | marketbeat.com

Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Purchased by Cramer Rosenthal Mcglynn LLC

August 27 at 9:22 AM | marketbeat.com

Axiom Investors LLC DE Sells 82,632 Shares of Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 27 at 7:02 AM | marketbeat.com

Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Acquired by Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC

August 27 at 7:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Purchased by CW Advisors LLC

August 26 at 5:11 AM | marketbeat.com

Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Acquired by Wellington Management Group LLP

August 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

American Century Companies Inc. Sells 366,191 Shares of Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

250,792 Shares in Cactus, Inc. $WHD Purchased by Nuveen LLC

August 25, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Cactus, Inc. $WHD Shares Acquired by T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc.

August 24, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. Sells 30,131 Shares of Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 22, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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August 21, 2025 | msn.com

QSV Equity Investors LLC Purchases Shares of 22,015 Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Fox Run Management L.L.C. Takes Position in Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Invesco Ltd. Sells 35,518 Shares of Cactus, Inc. $WHD

August 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Vanguard Group Inc. Lowers Stake in Cactus, Inc. (NYSE:WHD)

August 18, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Zacks Research Has Bullish Estimate for Cactus Q2 Earnings

August 17, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Cactus (NYSE:WHD) Rating Lowered to "Sell" at Wall Street Zen

August 17, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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WHD, PTEN, HAL, and HP Company Descriptions

Halliburton NYSE:HAL

$22.69 +0.06 (+0.25%)

As of 09:36 AM Eastern

Halliburton Company provides products and services to the energy industry worldwide. It operates through two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment offers production enhancement services that include stimulation and sand control services; cementing services, such as well bonding and casing, and casing equipment; and completion tools that offer downhole solutions and services, including well completion products and services, intelligent well completions, and service tools, as well as liner hanger, sand control, and multilateral systems. This segment also provides electrical submersible pumps, as well as artificial lift services; production solutions comprising coiled tubing, hydraulic workover units, downhole tools, and pumping and nitrogen services; pipeline and process services, such as pre-commissioning, commissioning, maintenance, and decommissioning; and specialty chemicals and services. The Drilling and Evaluation segment offers drilling fluid systems, performance additives, completion fluids, solids control, specialized testing equipment, and waste management services; drilling systems and services; wireline and perforating services consists of open-hole logging, and cased-hole and slickline; and drill bits and services comprising roller cone rock bits, fixed cutter bits, hole enlargement, and related downhole tools and services, as well as coring equipment and services. This segment also provides cloud based digital services and artificial intelligence solutions on an open architecture for subsurface insights, integrated well construction, and reservoir and production management; testing and subsea services, such as acquisition and analysis of reservoir information and optimization solutions; and project management and integrated asset management services. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Helmerich & Payne NYSE:HP

$20.56 +0.34 (+1.68%)

As of 09:35 AM Eastern

Founded in 1920, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (H&P) (NYSE: HP) is committed to delivering industry leading levels of drilling productivity and reliability. H&P operates with the highest level of integrity, safety and innovation to deliver superior results for its customers and returns for shareholders. Through its subsidiaries, the Company designs, fabricates and operates high-performance drilling rigs in conventional and unconventional plays around the world. H&P also develops and implements advanced automation, directional drilling and survey management technologies. H&P's fleet includes 299 land rigs in the U.S., 31 international land rigs and eight offshore platform rigs.

Patterson-UTI Energy NASDAQ:PTEN

$5.76 +0.02 (+0.26%)

As of 09:35 AM Eastern

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of contract drilling services to oil and natural gas operators in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Drilling Services, Completion Services, and Drilling Products. The Contract Drilling Services segment provides contract and directional drilling services in onshore oil and natural gas basins, as well as engages in the service and re-certification of equipment for drilling contractors, and provision of electrical controls and automation to the energy, marine and mining industries. The Completion Services segment offers services for hydraulic fracturing, wireline and pumping, completion support, and cementing; and involved in the power solutions natural gas fueling, and logistics and storage businesses. The Drilling Products segment manufactures and distributes drill bits for energy and mining markets. It also provides software and services, such as MWD Survey FDIR, a data analytics technology to analyze MWD survey data in real-time and identify the position of a well; HiFi Nav, which enhances FDIR by targeting improved vertical placement of the directional well within the reservoir; HiFi Guidance, utilizes trajectory optimization to determine optimal steering recommendations and placement within the reservoir; and rents oilfield tools. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Cactus NYSE:WHD

$41.87 -0.03 (-0.08%)

As of 09:36 AM Eastern

Cactus, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sells, and leases pressure control and spoolable pipes in the United States, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Pressure Control and Spoolable Technologies. The Pressure Control segment designs, manufactures, sells, and rents a range of wellhead and pressure control equipment under the Cactus Wellhead brand name through service centers. Its products are sold and rented primarily for onshore unconventional oil and gas wells for drilling, completion, and production phases of the wells. This segment also provides field services to install, maintain, and handle the equipment. The Spoolable Technologies segment designs, manufactures, and sells spoolable pipes and associated end fittings under the FlexSteel brand name. Its products are primarily used to transport oil, gas, and other liquids. This segment also provides field services and rental items through service centers and pipe yards, as well as offers equipment and services internationally. In addition, the company offers repair and refurbishment services. Cactus, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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