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  • Hedge Fund Giovine Capital Loves These Stocks; Should You?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: APC, ENR, HES, HD, MOS

    Giovine Capital Group, founded by Thomas A. Giovine in 1998, has porfolio. Institutional investors have to comply with SEC requirements, which include filing a 13F form every quarter. A quick look at the top five equity positions of Giovine may be a good starting point for individual research. Our research has shown that individual investors can outperform the market by as much as 18 percentage points per year by imitating more »

  • Billionaire Michael Price's Top Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: Y, C, FXCM, HES, INTC

    We track quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors as part of our work researching investing strategies (we have found, for example, that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds generate an average excess return of 18 percentage points per year). 13Fs can also be useful for tracking individual fund managers' activity over time and therefore serving as a free source of initial investment ideas more »

  • Einhorn Favors These Two Opportunistic Stock Ideas

    By Anh HOANG - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: CLR, HES, OIS

    In the first quarter 2013, David Einhorn, the famous hedge fund manager, has initiated long positions in six new stocks, bringing the total asset under management to more than $6.5 billion. His six new stocks are Oil States International (NYSE: OIS), Hess Corp (NYSE: HES), Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Capital Bank Financial and National Bank Holdings. In a three-article series, I will take a closer look into each more »

  • The Bakken Is Still Roaring

    By Callum Turcan - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: HES, KOG, NOG

    What if I told you that you could own a stock whose oil production is up 107% year over year with a PE (TTM) of 14.8? What if I also told you that this stock's EPS is also slated to grow by over 34% this year? At this point, you would probably be thinking what a great deal this is.

    The company I'm talking about is a more »

  • Three Oil Companies to Watch

    By Austin Higgins - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: DNR, XOM, HES

    Oil production has been in the spotlight recently. There has been an influx of produced wells, and oil prices have slowly risen to $92 per barrel. Investors should be looking for oil and gas companies to add to their portfolios. Here are three to consider.

    Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES)

    Hess recently posted its first quarter earnings report, with strong gains beating analyst expectations. Hess has a strong position in the more »

  • When to Buy This Energy Stock?

    By Shas Dey - April 13, 2013 | Tickers: COP, HES, PBR

    Since Hess (NYSE: HES) publicly announced their strategic transformation into a more focused and higher growth exploration and production company in July 2012, the stock has given returns of more than 70% to its shareholders. This is a phenomenal capital appreciation for investors within the last nine months. The company has also announced a $4 billion stock repurchase plan and is raising its dividends by 150% to $1 annually. Now more »

  • Is GE's Acquisition Right Acquiring Lufkin Industries?

    By Ron Chatterjee - April 13, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, CMCSA, GE, HES, MHR, MPO, PVA, WFT

    This is what General Electric (NYSE: GE) Oil & Gas' President and CEO, Daniel C. Heintzelman, has to say about the recent acquisition of Lufkin Industries Inc., a leading manufacturer and provider of artificial lift technologies and industrial gears for the oil and gas industry, for approximately $3.3 billion.

    "Advanced technologies, combined with new drilling practices, are revolutionizing the oil and gas industry," said Daniel C. Heintzelman, president and CEO more »

  • Will The New Asset Help The Company Defend Its Home Turf?

    By Mike Thiessen - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: XOM, HES

    In late March of 2013, American oil and gas producer Hess (NYSE: HES) announced that it had sold its Russian subsidiary to Lukoil for approximately $2 billion. The move was widely seen as beneficial for both parties to the transaction.

    With the sale, Hess will secure some additional capital to bolster its exploration and infrastructure-building operations elsewhere in the world. Meanwhile, Lukoil will earn a chance to reverse a worrying more »

  • What Do These Oil Companies Have in Common?

    By Austin Higgins - April 11, 2013 | Tickers: HES, MRO, MPC, VLO

    Oil and gas companies are focusing their efforts on providing the most valuable operations to their investors. While gas prices have risen steadily over the last 6 months, downstream operations are not the most profitable space to control. There is a new trend of oil and gas exploration companies selling or spinning off their downstream, retail operations in an effort to develop their core practice of finding and drilling for more »

  • This Integrated Energy Company Is Still Cheap

    By Anh HOANG - April 11, 2013 | Tickers: CLR, HES, OAS

    Recently, Hess (NYSE: HES) agreed to sell its Russian subsidiary Samara-Nafta to Lukoil for more than $2 billion. This deal is a part of ongoing business restructuring to focus on Hess’s core business of crude exploration and production. From the beginning of the year, Hess has risen significantly by nearly 33.5% to nearly $72 per share. I personally think that with the great assets that Hess owns right more »

  • This Integrated Energy Company is Still Cheap

    By Anh HOANG - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: CLR, HES, OAS

    Recently, Hess Corp (NYSE: HES) has agreed to sell its Russian subsidiary Samara-Nafta to Lukoil for more than $2 billion. This deal is a part of the ongoing business restructures to focus on Hess’s core business of crude exploration and production. From the beginning of the year, Hess has risen significantly by nearly 33.5% to nearly $72 per share. I personally think that with the great assets that more »

  • What Do These Oil Companies Have in Common?

    By Austin Higgins - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: HES, MRO, MPC, VLO

    Oil and gas companies are focusing their efforts on providing the most valuable operations to its investors. While gas prices have risen steadily over the last 6 months, downstream operations are not the most profitable space to control. There is a new trend of oil and gas exploration companies selling or spinning off their downstream, retail operations in an effort to develop their core practice of finding and drilling for more »

  • Be Selective to Make Money in Oil

    By Ken McGaha - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: BP, XOM, HES, PBR

    Profiting from investing requires picking a business that provides a necessary or desired product, has an excellent management team and is now selling at the right price. It is fairly easy to find industries that provide products the market wants or needs. Finding the ones that are well run and priced to allow exceptional profits is a bit more difficult. Energy is a product that is required by virtually every more »

  • This Block Investor Likes Industrials

    By Marshall Hargrave - March 22, 2013 | Tickers: ANF, FLS, HES, ITW, MTW

    Relational Investors, founded by Ralph Whitworth in 1996, employs a block investing strategy. Block investing is a spin on "activist" investing, being a more "company friendly" approach to enacting change at companies. These investors generally purchase large blocks of shares and engage with company management to unlock shareholder value. 

    Relational made a couple of notable investments during the fourth quarter, including buying up a notable crane company and having over more »

  • VAALCO Energy Losing Growth Momentum

    By Sandeep Gupta - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: HES, PXD, EGY

    VAALCO Energy (NYSE: EGY) announced the financial results for FY 2012 on March 14th. The company stock experienced a flat blow of 12% the day after. The oil production company reported a net loss of $18.9 million for the fourth quarter, against the $8.7 million profit during the same period last year.

    Where is the company moving, and what are its future prospects? Should investors continue investing, or more »

  • What CEO’s Probable Removal Means for SandRidge

    By Diane Alter - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, HES, SD

    Chalk up another one for the activist investor.

    Hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital just struck a deal with SandRidge Energy (NYSE: SD), apparently giving the okay to show the oil and gas company’s CEO Tom Ward the door.

    TPG-Axon, which owns 7.3% of SandRidge, launched a campaign back in 2012 with another hedge fund to oust Ward and the company’s entire Board of Directors amid governance lapses and more »

  • Here’s Why Hess Is a Buy

    By Diane Alter - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: COP, HES, MRO

    A couple of weeks ago, Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) announced several initiatives that will morph the oil giant into a pure exploration and production (E&P) company by 2014.

    The focus will be on higher growth as the company creates a lower risk portfolio of assets. This will be achieved by exiting its retail business, energy marketing and energy trading.

    In tweaking its portfolio, Hess will divest operations in Indonesia more »

  • ConocoPhillips: Buy, Sell or Hold?

    By Maxwell Fisher - March 14, 2013 | Tickers: CVX, COP, HES

    ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has reported results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and the full year, and this gives us the opportunity to evaluate the company as a pure up stream play after it spun off its downstream operations as Phillips 66. The focus of this article will be on the performance of the company without the cushion of downstream earnings in a year when refining margins were strong because more »

  • To Market, To Market, To Fetch a Fat Spread

    By Peter Horn - March 13, 2013 | Tickers: BRK-A, EOG, HES, GBX

    Unconventional oil shales have provided critical revenue for the large US independents at a time when weak gas pricing might otherwise be disastrous. Getting that oil to market however, is a challenge. Bakken production is log jammed because of a lack of pipeline infrastructure. Similar issues have hamstrung western Canadian syncrude producers. Rail shipping has been critical to getting this off-the-beaten-trail production to market and its contribution is still expanding more »

  • Three Stocks with Tremendous Upside from Activist Investors

    By John Macris - March 12, 2013 | Tickers: DAVE, HES, NAV

    How is the mindset of a billionaire different from a Motley Fool reader? You might be surprised to learn that it’s not that different, actually.

    T. Boone Pickens recently published an op-ed piece on LinkedIn Today called A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted. The first sentence of the piece reads, “Don't think that just because I'm a billionaire I throw money away.”

    I’ve personally more »

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