Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for RES in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeRPC confirmed that it will release third quarter 2026 results on 29 October, before the market opens, giving a fixed date for the next scheduled update. Separate coverage this week placed RPC alongside Transocean in a comparative look at valuation, dividends, ownership, analyst recommendations and risk, while another piece described near-term sentiment as strong with a more neutral mid-term read and a longer-term positive bias.
RPC closed at $5.96, below both its 50-day average of $6.12 and its 200-day average of $6.35, with the 50-day also under the 200-day. The stock is down 7.6% over one month and 11.8% over six months, though still up 31.3% over the past year. The GekkoIndex reads 58.9, placing RPC in the Neutral zone. Gekko Fair Value stands at $6.23, putting the current price 4.3% below that level.
The next earnings date falls on 29 October, 17 days away, which sits inside a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the last report produced a reaction of -14.5%, and average absolute moves around earnings have run 8.2%. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current windows. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged a 7.5% gain over five years, though they rose in only 2 of those years. Analyst consensus places a target of $6.40, implying 7.4% upside from current levels.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
RPC price vs fair value
Close $5.96200-day averageGekko Fair Value $6.23
RPC quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.32B
- P/E ratio
- 54.6
- Forward P/E
- 16.3
- EPS, TTM
- $0.11
- Revenue, TTM
- $1.79B
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Dividend yield
- 2.69%
- Beta
- 0.86
- Volume
- 1.37M avg 2.17M
- 1-year return
- +31.3%
- Typical daily move
- ±3.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±8.4%
- 50-day average
- $6.12
- 200-day average
- $6.35
- Next earnings
- Oct 29 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 221.7M
RPC swing-trade checklist
RPC scores 0 supportive, 3 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
0 supportive3 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $5.96 is below the 50-day ($6.12) and 200-day ($6.35) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
58.9, Neutral
Reading 58.9 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuemixed
4.3% below
Price is within 5% of Gekko Fair Value (4.3% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 17 days
Reports on Oct 29, 2026, 17 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitymixed
+7.5% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +7.5% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
See seasonality
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RPC stock chart and price history
RPC closed at $5.96 on Oct 12, 2026, +31.3% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $4.18 to $8.16.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −7.6%
- 3 months
- +1.9%
- 6 months
- −11.8%
- 1 year
- +31.3%
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About RPC
RPC provides equipment and services that oil and gas companies rely on while they explore for, develop and produce energy properties. It is best known for the technical work involved in completing and maintaining wells, including pressure pumping, hydraulic fracturing, acidizing, cementing, coiled tubing, snubbing, nitrogen work, wireline jobs, pump down services and fishing operations, along with downhole tooling and well control.
The business runs through two segments. Technical Services covers the well completion and production work described above, while Support Services supplies rental tools for onshore and offshore drilling, completion and workover jobs, alongside pipe inspection, pipe management and storage, and well control training and consulting. RPC's customers are oil and gas operators, and the company carries out work across the United States, Africa, Canada, Argentina, China, Mexico, Eastern Europe, Latin America more broadly, and the Middle East.
RPC was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker RES.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Industrial services
- Industry
- Oilfield services/Equipment
- Website
- rpc.net
RPC GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
RPC’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 58.9, in the Neutral zone, up 2.7 points over five sessions.
58.9Neutral
Up 2.7 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 40 | +3.0% | +2.8% | ||
| Accumulation | 234 | +1.4% | +2.6% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 378 | −0.8% | −1.7% | ||
| Distribution | 26 | −1.2% | −1.5% | ||
| Selling | 4 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average RES share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is RPC stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
RPC trades 4.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $6.23, so the shares are about fair value on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what RPC shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$6.23
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
4.3% below fair value · About fair value
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 4.6% above the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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RPC insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for RPC, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in RES were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Congress disclosures for RES, plotted on the chart in Gekko.Open RES in Gekko
Buybacks
RPC has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- $3.45M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.26%
From company filings.
RPC earnings: next date and track record
RPC reports on Oct 29, 2026, before the open (17 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 3 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 29, 2026
Expected before the open, 17 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.10
- Revenue estimate
- $469.1M
3 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±8.2%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Feb 3, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- RPC, Inc. Q4 2025 earnings call: Management (Ben Palmer, CEO; Mike Schmit, CFO) reported sequential revenue declines across most service lines with overall Q4 revenues down 5% to $426M. Technical Services comprised 95% of revenue and fell 4%; Support Services down 18%. Key service lines: pressure pumping (27.6%), wireline (24.1%), downhole tools (22.4%). Company expensed wireline cables due to a change in useful life, increasing cost of revenues and reducing capex. Adjusted diluted EPS was $0.04. Management described weakness in December, geographic weakness in international and Rocky Mountain regions, while Southeast and Northeast grew. Thru Tubing Solutions rolling out new A-10 motor and Metal Max power section, gaining share. Management emphasized cost discipline, financial flexibility, selective M&A and tech investment, possible opportunistic buybacks but none committed, and cautious fleet reactivation tied to improved pricing or steady work. Q&A covered weather impacts, competitive dynamics, M&A appetite, wireline accounting change, international exposure, pressure pumping spot market, capex discretion, and rental tool seasonality. No explicit quantitative guidance for Q1 or full-year 2026 provided; management described capex guidance conservatively and subject to change.
- Risks flagged
- - Weakness in December and in international and Rocky Mountain regions could persist. - Low year-end oil prices (lowest since COVID) may suppress activity until prices rise. - High effective tax rate in quarter due to policy liquidation and nondeductible costs. - Competitive pressure and oversupply in pressure pumping and spot markets; potential fleet idling. - Accounting change on wireline increases cost of revenues and reduces capex, may affect comparability.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2026 | $0.04 est $0.06 | $425.8M est $425.2M | −14.5% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $0.09 est $0.07 | $447.1M est $386.9M | +4.0% |
| Jul 24, 2025 | $0.08 est $0.09 | $420.8M est $402.3M | −4.0% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | $0.06 est $0.05 | $332.9M est $326.7M | +2.6% |
| Jan 30, 2025 | $0.06 est $0.07 | $335.4M est $327.1M | −4.5% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | $0.09 est $0.13 | $337.7M est $365.3M | −5.1% |
| Jul 25, 2024 | $0.15 est $0.13 | $364.2M est $380.4M | +20.6% |
| Apr 25, 2024 | $0.13 est $0.17 | $377.8M est $390.9M | −10.1% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
RPC stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for RPC is $6.40, +7.4% from the last close.
$6.40consensus 12-month target, +7.4% from the last close
−1.7%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+7.5%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.1%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
RPC seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, RPC averaged +7.5% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +1.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +4.8% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +8.2% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +7.5% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −2.4% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, RES’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 8.4%.
RPC market cap and key statistics
RPC’s market cap is $1.32B, with a P/E ratio of 54.6 and revenue of $1.79B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.32B
- P/E ratio
- 54.6
- Forward P/E
- 16.3
- EPS, TTM
- $0.11
- Gekko Fair Value
- $6.23
Trading
- Volume
- 1.37M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.17M
- 52-week high
- $8.16
- 52-week low
- $4.18
- Shares outstanding
- 221.7M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $1.79B
- Profit margin
- 1.3%
- Return on equity
- 2.1%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +4.8%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.86
- Typical daily move
- ±3.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±8.4%
- Dividend yield
- 2.69%
RPC stock news this week
4 headlines about RPC from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- RPC, Inc. Announces Date for Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Conference CallPRNewsWire, Oct 12
- Analyzing RPC (NYSE:RES) and Transocean (NYSE:RIG)Defense World, Oct 10
- Behavioral Patterns of RES and Institutional FlowsStock Traders Daily, Oct 7
- Mercury Introduces RES One, a Rugged Edge Server Engineered for Rapid Deployment and Superior Lifecycle ManagementGlobeNewsWire, Oct 6
RPC peers
RPC’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| FTITechnipFMC | Accumulation | 4.2% above |
| HALHalliburton | Accumulation | 28.1% below |
| NOVNOV | Accumulation | 30.8% below |
| WFRDWeatherford International | Accumulation | 45.3% below |
| AROCArchrock | Accumulation | 3.7% below |
| KGSKodiak Gas Services | Accumulation | 5.8% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
RPC stock FAQ
What is RPC’s market cap?
RPC’s market cap is $1.32B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $5.96, with 221.7M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 54.6.
What is the RPC stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for RPC is $6.40, +7.4% from the last close. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is RPC stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate RPC is about fair value: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $5.96 is 4.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $6.23. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does RPC report earnings next?
RPC is expected to report on Oct 29, 2026, before the market opens (17 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.10 per share on revenue of $469.1M. RPC beat the earnings estimate in 3 of its last 8 reports, moving 8.2% on average across the report.
What is RPC’s 52-week high and low?
RPC’s 52-week high is $8.16 and its 52-week low is $4.18; it closed at $5.96 on Oct 12, 2026, +31.3% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $12.91 on Apr 18, 2022.
Is RPC stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 0 of the 5 items with data read as supportive, 3 as mixed (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality) and 2 as headwinds (trend and earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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