How many energy stocks are seeing their profit margins increase in this environment? That’s exactly what I expect to happen when my favourite company announces their next quarterly in mid-August. That’s right—the main product group for this company will almost certainly see a higher top line and bottom line in 2015. Profit...
Raymond James researchers predict that the overall domestic U.S. oil supply will increase – but only modestly - over the next five years.
By: Bill Powers Sanford Bernstein is a boutique brokerage firm that the Market considers "smart money".  But I have hard time believing their May 4th call that Marcellus/Utica gas production will jump a net 10 bcf/d by 2018. My main doubt comes from Chesapeake (CHK-NYSE) as they are in the process...
What did Chevron accomplish in 2015 by outspending cash flow by $19 billion? Increase production a paltry 2%. Barely replace reserves--107% of production. That is what Chevron managed to achieve in 2015 by spending $31 billion while generating just $19 billion of cash flow.  And that is actually incredibly bullish, despite...
In Part One of this series I introduced readers to “Kurt’s Bible” a great piece of energy stock investing wisdom written by Canadian energy analyst Kurt Molnar of Raymond James. In Part Two here, I want to warn energy stock investors of a huge risk that they are taking if...
By Donald Dony, Editor www.technicalspeculator.com Energy sector swings to performance As the bull market starts its 6th year and the 3rd longest advance since 1920, we see several signals that are common to the later phase of a mature market. The first is the relative performance shift out typical bull market sectors...
Even before Tuesday's big jump in natural gas prices, I was intrigued to see some of the leading natgas stocks in the US hold up or go up on days natgas was down this week, like EQT, Southwestern, and Rice Energy, (which my colleague Bill Powers profiled at $9.47/share on...
There are two very important energy stocks for investors to watch.  In Canada, it’s the large integrated oil producer Suncor—symbol SU on both the TSX and NYSE.  In the United States, it’s the large independent refinery company Valero—VLO-NYSE. I think they’re important because I see the as them as energy...