The Latest Breaking News from Pioneer Natural Resources

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Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Pioneer Natural Resources's (NYSE:PXD) short percent of float has risen 20.93% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 6.08 million shares sold short, which is 2.6% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Over the past 3 months, 14 analysts have published their opinion on Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD) stock. These analysts are typically employed by large Wall Street banks and tasked with understanding a company's business to predict how a stock will trade over the upcoming year.

Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD) has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 6.14% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 12.86%. Currently, Pioneer Natural Resources has a market capitalization of $65.61 billion.

Pioneer Natural Resources's (NYSE:PXD) short percent of float has risen 11.36% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 5.76 million shares sold short, which is 2.45% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD) has observed the following analyst ratings within the last quarter: