Is the price fair?
What PTEN's price assumes
Today's price asks for 6.6% free cash flow growth a year; over the last three years Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. delivered −23%, the price is ahead of the record.
0.87
Price / sales · no P/E: the last twelve months did not end in a profit
- Free cash flow yield
- 4.7%
Free cash flow yield · Oil & Gas Drilling median 6.8%
- Growth the price implies
- +6.6%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +6.6% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −23% a year over the last three.
- Price / book
- 1.29
Price / book · as of 2026-Q1
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.29
- EV / EBIToperating margin −1.1%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 1.06
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $178M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.81B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +16%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −23%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Oil & Gas Drilling
Ranks #4 of 9 by Smart Score