Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) stock is performing better than the rest of its industry group as of 2019-12-23.

'Acts better than the whole group' is judged by Pioneer's (PXD) share-price performance against US oil and gas exploration-and-production peers (for example XOP or the S&P 500 energy E&P constituents) on 2019-12-23 and over the short period before it (up to about one month). True: PXD's return was better than the group benchmark and better than most named E&P peers on that day and over the recent period. Mostly true: PXD beat the group benchmark over one of the two windows and roughly matched it (within about 1 percentage point) over the other. Mixed: PXD beat the group over one window and clearly lagged over the other. Mostly false: PXD roughly matched the group, or beat only a few peers, so 'better than the whole group' overstates it. False: PXD clearly lagged the group benchmark over both windows.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Digrin – Dividend Portfolio Tracker Digrin

   “| December 2019 | $118.64 | $151.37 |”

2. E2 Digrin – Dividend Portfolio Tracker Digrin

   “| November 2019 | $99.91 | $127.84 |”

3. E3 Between a Reform and a Hard Place -XOP State Street Global Advisors (SPDR Research and Strategy) · 6 January 2020

   “Source: Bloomberg Finance, L.P., as of 12/31/2019, XOP underperformed the S&P 500 by 41% in 2019”

4. E4 Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) - Stock price history companiesmarketcap.com

   “2019 12.71%”

5. E5 Digrin – Dividend Portfolio Tracker Digrin

   “| December 2019 | $118.64 | $151.37 | | November 2019 | $99.91 | $127.84 |”

E1, E2 and E5 give only month-level PXD prices for November and December 2019. They are not labelled clearly enough to show PXD's return on 2019-12-23 or over the month before it. E4 gives a bare 2019 figure of 12.71% for PXD, and E3 says only that XOP underperformed the S&P 500 by 41% across all of 2019. None of these items compares PXD with XOP or named E&P peers on the day or over the one-month window, so the criteria cannot be applied.