PTEN
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- PTEN −3.42% on the last session vs SPY +0.10%: −3.5 pts of stock-specific move.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices PTEN only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
11.81 +2.4% reached 3 in 10 days |
12.16 +5.4% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 11.15 · prior close 11.54 | |
| Bargain buy side |
11.27 -2.3% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
10.95 -5.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 11.19 | 2 in 10 days | 11.90 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 11.27 | 3 in 10 days | 11.81 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 11.35 | 4 in 10 days | 11.73 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 10.76 | 2 in 10 weeks | 12.37 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 10.95 | 3 in 10 weeks | 12.16 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 11.13 | 4 in 10 weeks | 11.97 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From PTEN's daily swings (about 2.4% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
Big drop and big gain: among PTEN's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time closing high Jul 25, 2014 |
29.30 +162.9% |
| 52-week closing high Sep 2, 2026 |
13.15 +18.0% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 12.16 +9.1% |
| 50-day average | 11.67 +4.7% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
11.54 +3.5% |
| Now | 11.15 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 10.95 -1.8% |
| 200-day average | 10.14 -9.0% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 20, 2025 |
5.18 -53.5% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 33 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.