AR Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Antero Resources | NYSE:AR)

Antero Resources is an exploration and production (E&P) firm whose operations represent a pure play in the Marcellus Shale, located in northern West Virginia. The company started in 2002 as an E&P focused on the Barnett Shale (Fort Worth, TX). Antero redefined itself in Appalachia's Marcellus Shale in 2005. In 2012, shortly before Antero's 2013 IPO, Antero Midstream Partners (now trading separately as NYS: AM) was formed to handle the company's rapidly growing gas volumes. In 2026, the firm narrowed its focus further by selling its Ohio Utica assets and using the proceeds to acquire additional Marcellus acreage from HG Energy. Just over half of its production and earning power is tied to natural gas, with the remainder mostly NGLs, where it holds a leading position, and some crude oil.

Antero Resources trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol AR.

As of April 30, 2026, AR stock price climbed to $39.39 with 5,138,697 million shares trading.

AR has a beta of -0.81, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AR has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AR has a market cap of $12.20 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Antero Resources reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.15 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $302 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, AR traded as high as $45.75 and as low as $19.91.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AR belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IJH, VB, VXF, VBR.

AR has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +8.9%, while SPY returned +31.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in AR shares. However, AR has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +11.6% and +8.4%, while SPY returned +3.8% and +2.7%, respectively. This indicates AR has been having a stronger performance recently.

AR support price is $37.93 and resistance is $40.10 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AR shares will trade within this expected range on the day.