In today’s recent session, 1.26 million shares of the Patterson-UTI Energy Inc (NASDAQ:PTEN) have been traded, and its beta is 1.63. Most recently the company’s share price was $8.66, and it changed around $0.17 or 2.00% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $3.35B. PTEN at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $12.65, offering almost -46.07% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $7.03, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 18.82% since then. We note from Patterson-UTI Energy Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 13.73 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 10.53 million.
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.75. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 18 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 5 recommended PTEN as a Hold, whereas 7 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc (NASDAQ:PTEN) trade information
Instantly PTEN has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 2.00% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 8.71 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.57%. The company’s shares are currently up 4.84% year-to-date, but still up 2.73% over the last five days. On the other hand, Patterson-UTI Energy Inc (NASDAQ:PTEN) is 6.78% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 25.21 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.17 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $12, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 27.83% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PTEN is forecast to be at a low of $10.5 and a high of $13.
PTEN Dividends
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-05. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 3.70 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.32. It is important to note, however, that the 3.70% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.28 per year.
Patterson-UTI Energy Inc (NASDAQ:PTEN)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 2.54% of Patterson-UTI Energy Inc shares, and 106.23% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 108.99%. Patterson-UTI Energy Inc stock is held by 476.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 14.3767% of the shares, which is about 57.44 million shares worth $595.11 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 11.3004% or 45.15 million shares worth $467.77 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Feb 28, 2025. The former held 22.62 shares worth $196.21 million, making up 5.85% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF held roughly 19.72 shares worth around $171.05 million, which represents about 5.10% of the total shares outstanding.
