Both in Oil & Gas Extraction

Comstock Resources vs Patterson-UTI Energy

Over the past year CRK returned −33.3% and PTEN returned +77.2%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.39.

CRK −33.3% PTEN +77.2%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricCRKPTEN
Price$13.38$10.65
Market cap$3.93B$4.06B
Today−3.32%−9.36%
1 month−2.0%−6.7%
6 months−10.7%−8.0%
Year to date−42.3%+74.3%
1 year−30.4%+66.4%
Revenue growth (YoY)−24.9%+14.1%
Gross margin82.2%25.1%
Net margin2.5%2.1%
P/E (TTM)7.5×—
Price / sales1.8×0.8×
Net cash-$3.05B-$901.5M
Dividend yield—3.76%
Volatility (60d)47.0%52.5%
Short % of float32.4%7.3%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).