January 15, 2021 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, XOM |
Shares of ExxonMobil (XOM) closed down 4.81% today on a Wall Street Journal report that the Securities & Exchange Commission was investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging that the company overvalued assets in the Permian Basin oil shale geology. The whistleblower complaint alleges that during a 2019 internal assessment workers were forced to use unrealistic assumptions about how quickly wells could be drilled to reach a higher valuation.
June 30, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
It's a measure of how dire things are in the oil sector that Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-A) has announced a write down of between $15 billion and $22 billion for the second quarter. The write down is larger than the $17.5 billion write down that BP (BP) took in June or the...
April 17, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, Short Term, WST |
In my recent post "What do you do when the market is insane and you're not?" I argued that one of the dangers in a very volatile market with strong--and temporarily profitable--short-term trends is that we'll give in to the pressure to do something--and do something...
April 13, 2020 | Daily JAM |
As of 1 p.m. New York time the Standard & Poor's 500 is down 1.88% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off 2.14%. The NASDSQ Composite is lower by 0.79% and the Russell 2000 small cap index has tumbled 2.80%. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) has...
October 28, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, Short Term, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
The oil supermajors--ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX),Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), Total (TOT) and BP (BP)--are expected to show a 42% year over year average plummet in third quarter earnings when they report earnings this week. That's an even bigger slump than the 18%...
October 15, 2019 | Daily JAM, PE, Stock Alerts |
Low oil prices mean low oil stock share prices mean the ability of mid-range producers to acquire smaller producers in the low cost, prolific Permian Basin is increasingly limited. Take Parley Energy's (PE) deal to acquire Jagged Peak Energy (JAG). At the Friday price...
June 13, 2019 | Daily JAM, PE, Stock Alerts |
Back on April 17, I made Parsley Energy (PE) my first disruption in the oil sector pick in my Special Report on Disrupted Sectors. I didn't actually post that pick to the portfolio, however, and this post, excerpted from the Special Report, is a fix for that error....
May 21, 2019 | Daily JAM, PXD, Stock Alerts, You Might Have Missed |
Today, May 21, Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) announced that it would lay off 230 workers at its headquarters and in Permian Basin offices. Added to the 300 employees who took buyouts earlier this year, the total cuts amount to about 20% of the company's workforce....
May 8, 2019 | Daily JAM, PXD, Stock Alerts |
A complicated but very positive quarter for Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD.) The stock, a member of my long-term 50 Best Stocks Portfolio, climbed 3.92% today to $153.77. First, after the close on May 6, the company announced earnings of $1.83 a share, 20 cents a...
April 30, 2019 | Daily JAM |
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) has brought Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) into its battle with Chevron (CVX) for control of Permian-Basin-rich Anadarko Petroleum (APC). Up until the entry of Buffett, Chevron had the inside edge even though it had offered a...
April 25, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, PXD |
The battle for control of Anadarko Petroleum (APC) and its huge position in the oil shale geologies of the Permian Basis isn't over. Yesterday, Wednesday, Occidential Petroleum (OXY) made a renewed bid to acquire Anadarko. The 50%/50% stock and cash offer from...
April 18, 2019 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing |
Today the weekly Baker Hughes report on the number of working oil and natural gas rigs in the United States showed a total drop of 10 rigs to 1012 with 8 fewer oil rigs in operation and 2 fewer natural gas rigs.This is the seventh weekly decline in working rigs in the last nine weeks.
