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Gold/Mining/Energy : Anyone following UTI Energy Corp.? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harold S. who wrote (608)	5/1/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Nazbuster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1305

Earnings up 50% and the stock up 1/4? How does volume compare at this time of the morning to past days?

To: Harold S. who wrote (608)	5/1/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: Frank Drebin	Respond to of 1305

Harold, I'd hardly call intentionally faking a press release conjecture. Sorry for using this thread so much today for blasting kirk, but SI (uh, I mean Go2net) is not the place for this BS. That's what the yahoo boards are (apparently) for. -p

To: Harold S. who wrote (608)	5/1/1998 11:12:00 AM
From: R. Murphey	Respond to of 1305

Was this performance comparison, released yesterday, posted yet? Released 4/30 with the shareholder meeting announcement. Note comparison with the peer group. marketwatch.newsalert.com PERFORMANCE GRAPH The following graph compares the cumulative stockholder return on the Common Stock of the Company, for the period from December 7, 1993, the date on which the Company's Common Stock was first registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, through December 31, 1997, with the cumulative total return of the Standard and Poors 500 Stock Index and a Company-Determined Peer Index. The peer group consists of Grey Wolf, Inc., Nabors Industries, Inc., Parker Drilling Company, Patterson Energy, Inc. and TMBR/SHARP Drilling Inc. All of the peers are providers of contract oil and gas land drilling services. The graph assumes investment of $100 on December 7, 1993 and reinvestment of all dividends. ========================================================================================================== 12/93 12/31/93 12/31/94 12/31/95 12/31/96 12/31/97 UTI 100 92.06 41.35 70.23 441.65 969.11 S&P 100 101.21 102.55 141.08 173.47 231.35 Peer Group 100 112.03 93.83 147.36 252.59 417.84 ========================================================================================================== (End of item excerpt.)