What SEC filings does Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. submit to the SEC?

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN) submits several types of SEC filings including Form 4 (insider transactions), Form 144 (proposed insider sales), 8-K reports (material events such as earnings releases, acquisitions, leadership changes), and periodic reports — the 10-Q (quarterly) and 10-K (annual). All filings are publicly available through SEC EDGAR.

What does a Form 4 filing tell me about PTEN?

A Form 4 for PTEN discloses a transaction by a company insider — typically a director, officer, or 10%+ shareholder. It shows the source-reported date, number of shares, price, and updated ownership. These facts do not establish motive or predict future returns.

How do I interpret an 8-K filing from Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.?

An 8-K signals a material event requiring prompt disclosure. Common triggers include earnings pre-announcements, acquisitions, leadership appointments or departures, credit changes, or regulatory actions. Read the item codes inside the filing to understand exactly what was disclosed before drawing conclusions.

What is the difference between a 10-K and 10-Q for PTEN?

The 10-K is Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.'s annual report with fully audited financial statements, comprehensive MD&A, and complete risk factor disclosures — filed 60–90 days after fiscal year-end. The 10-Q is a lighter quarterly report with unaudited financials filed for the first three quarters. Together they provide a continuous financial picture of the company.

Where can I see all PTEN SEC filings directly on EDGAR?

You can view all historical Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. filings on the SEC EDGAR company page for PTEN. Each filing card on this page links directly to the original SEC document.

How often does Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. file with the SEC?

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. files one 10-K per year and up to three 10-Qs per year. Form 4 insider transactions must be reported within two business days of each trade, so the frequency depends on how often insiders are buying or selling PTEN shares. 8-K filings occur whenever a material event happens — which can be several times per quarter for an active company.

PTEN SEC Filing News — Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.

Latest SEC filings for Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN) explained in plain English. Covers insider buying and selling (Form 4), proposed insider sales (Form 144), material company events (8-K), and quarterly & annual reports (10-Q / 10-K). StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries; original filings remain at the SEC/source links and were authored by their filers, not StrongBuyAnalytics. Filing dates shown are source dates. Coverage and detection can be delayed or incomplete because of SEC availability, amendments, parsing, caching, or outages. Latest source filing date shown: 2026-09-21.

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides drilling and completion services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States, Canada, Colombia, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Drilling Services, Completion Services, and Drilling Products. The Contract Drilling Services segment engages in the provision of contract and directional drilling, and measurement-while-drilling (MWD) services in onshore oil and natural gas basin…

Sector: Energy Industry: Oil & Gas Drilling Market Cap: $4.4B CIK: 889900

Total Filings

Bullish Classifications

Bearish Classifications

Insider Transactions

Material Events (8-K)

Periodic Reports

Rule-based classifications for PTEN currently lean bearish. Of the 20 filing records displayed, 8 carry bearish classifications (such as insider sales or negative 8-K disclosures) versus 0 bullish. This does not necessarily signal fundamental deterioration — insiders sell for many reasons — but it is worth monitoring alongside the company's core financial metrics.

PTEN Filing Activity Snapshot 2026-05-28 — 2026-09-21

Insider Transactions (Form 4)

0 buys vs 8 sells

Net insider selling in this period — insiders sell for many reasons beyond conviction.

Largest Form 144 Filing

$3.23M

Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) · 2026-09-03

250,000 shares · Form 4

Form 144 Notices

Proposed insider sales filed — Form 144 is a notice of intent, not a confirmed transaction. Actual sales are confirmed via Form 4.

Insider Transactions 8 · Forms 3, 4 and 5

A Form 4 is filed within two business days of a company insider — an officer, a director, or a holder of more than ten percent of the stock — changing their position in the shares. All 8 filings in this group are Form 4s for Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.

The difficulty with reading these filings as a group is that a single form type covers transactions that mean entirely different things. An executive spending their own money to buy stock and an executive having shares withheld to pay tax on a vesting grant both appear as a Form 4. Every filing below is therefore tagged with the nature of the underlying transaction, taken from the transaction code reported on the form itself.

Across the 8 insider filings shown, the breakdown is 8 open-market sale. 8 of them involved a discretionary open-market trade; the rest are compensation and administrative mechanics.

What each transaction type means

Open-market sale ×8: The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-09-21

PTEN insider Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) sold 250,000 shares (~$2.98M)

Hendricks William Andrew JR, listed as Director, President & CEO at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 250,000 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	250,000	$11.91	$2.98M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) Shares: 250,000 Est. Value: $2.98M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-09-03

PTEN insider Drummond Robert Wayne Jr (Director) sold 200,000 shares (~$2.57M)

Drummond Robert Wayne Jr, listed as Director at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 200,000 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	1,605	$12.85	$20.6K
`S`	Open-market sale	198,395	$12.85	$2.55M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Drummond Robert Wayne Jr (Director) Shares: 200,000 Est. Value: $2.57M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-09-03

PTEN insider Wexler Seth David (EVP, General Counsel&Secretary) sold 120,000 shares (~$1.53M)

Wexler Seth David, listed as EVP, General Counsel&Secretary at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 120,000 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	120,000	$12.75	$1.53M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Wexler Seth David (EVP, General Counsel&Secretary) Shares: 120,000 Est. Value: $1.53M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-09-03

PTEN insider Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) sold 250,000 shares (~$3.23M)

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	250,000	$12.93	$3.23M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) Shares: 250,000 Est. Value: $3.23M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-08-26

PTEN insider STEWART JAMES CARL (Director) sold 207,000 shares (~$2.39M)

STEWART JAMES CARL, listed as Director at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 207,000 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	207,000	$11.54	$2.39M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: STEWART JAMES CARL (Director) Shares: 207,000 Est. Value: $2.39M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-06-10

PTEN insider Robinson Forrest C (Chief Accounting Officer) sold 13,670 shares (~$164.2K)

Robinson Forrest C, listed as Chief Accounting Officer at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 13,670 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	13,670	$12.01	$164.2K
`A`	Compensation award	20,833	—	—
`F`	Tax withholding on vested shares	5,749	$11.90	$68.4K

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Robinson Forrest C (Chief Accounting Officer) Shares: 13,670 Est. Value: $164.2K

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-06-09

PTEN insider Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) sold 200,000 shares (~$2.33M)

Hendricks William Andrew JR, listed as Director, President & CEO at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 200,000 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	200,000	$11.64	$2.33M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hendricks William Andrew JR (Director, President & CEO) Shares: 200,000 Est. Value: $2.33M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-06-01

PTEN insider Holcomb James Michael (EVP & Chief Operating Officer) sold 150,000 shares (~$1.72M)

Holcomb James Michael, listed as EVP & Chief Operating Officer at PATTERSON UTI ENERGY INC, reported an open-market sale of 150,000 PTEN shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	150,000	$11.47	$1.72M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Holcomb James Michael (EVP & Chief Operating Officer) Shares: 150,000 Est. Value: $1.72M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Proposed Insider Sales 8 · Form 144

A Form 144 is a notice of intent to sell restricted or control securities. It is not a record that anything was sold. Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. has 8 such notices in this period.

The distinction matters because a Form 144 is frequently reported as though it were a completed insider sale. The filer may sell all of the shares covered, some of them, or none at all, and there is no obligation to update the notice either way. A sale that is actually executed by an officer or director shows up separately on a Form 4, which is the filing to check before treating a proposed sale as a real one.

Form 144 Proposed Insider Sale 2026-09-18