NASDAQ:PTEN - Patterson-UTI Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Patterson-UTI Energy trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PTEN."

Patterson-UTI Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.04 per share on Thursday, December 19th. This represents a $0.16 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.59%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 4th. View Patterson-UTI Energy's Dividend History.

Patterson-UTI Energy declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Thursday, February 7th 2019, which permits the company to repurchase $250,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The oil and gas company reported ($0.27) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.30) by $0.03. The oil and gas company earned $598.50 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $604.66 million. Patterson-UTI Energy had a negative return on equity of 3.85% and a negative net margin of 19.50%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 31.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned ($0.10) earnings per share. View Patterson-UTI Energy's Earnings History.

Patterson-UTI Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Patterson-UTI Energy.

Patterson-UTI Energy will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

20 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Patterson-UTI Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $17.00. On average, they expect Patterson-UTI Energy's stock price to reach $10.87 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Patterson-UTI Energy.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Patterson-UTI Energy in the last year. There are currently 7 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Patterson-UTI Energy.

News articles about PTEN stock have been trending positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Patterson-UTI Energy earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the oil and gas company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Patterson-UTI Energy.

Patterson-UTI Energy saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 17,710,000 shares, a decrease of 8.3% from the November 28th total of 19,320,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,020,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days. Approximately 9.3% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Patterson-UTI Energy's Current Options Chain.

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Patterson-UTI Energy's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Scout Investments Inc. (0.97%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Patterson-UTI Energy stock include Curtis W Huff, Janeen S Judah and Terry H Hunt. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Patterson-UTI Energy.

PTEN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Scout Investments Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Patterson-UTI Energy company stock in the last year include Janeen S Judah and Terry H Hunt. View Insider Buying and Selling for Patterson-UTI Energy.

Shares of PTEN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PTEN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.04.

Patterson-UTI Energy has a market capitalization of $1.95 billion and generates $3.33 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $-321,420,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.34) on an earnings per share basis. Patterson-UTI Energy employs 8,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Patterson-UTI Energy.

The official website for Patterson-UTI Energy is http://www.patenergy.com/.

Patterson-UTI Energy's mailing address is 10713 WEST SAM HOUSTON PARKWAY NORTH SUITE 800, HOUSTON TX, 77064. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at 281-765-7100 or via email at [email protected].