Oasis Petroleum
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Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Owns Almost 5% of This Energy Company
By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: CRZO, CLR, KOG, NOG, OAS
Citadel Investment Group, managed by billionaire Ken Griffin and his team, has filed a 13G with the SEC disclosing a position of 1.9 million shares in Carrizo Oil & Gas (NASDAQ: CRZO). Carrizo Oil & Gas is a $1 billion market cap exploration and production company focused on shale plays including the Eagle Ford, Niobrara, and Utica. We track quarterly 13F filings from Citadel and other hedge funds, which we primarily more »
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Should You Bet on These High-Growth Stocks?
By Jacob Wolinsky - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: GILD, IBKR, OAS
Proponents of income investing may not like it, but there is nothing like a growth portfolio, portions of which can be sold at higher prices to rival the benefits of a dividend portfolio. Buying at lower prices is also an effective strategy for stocks such as Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD), Oasis Petroleum (NYSE: OAS), and Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) which offer excellent earnings potential. Here is a closer look at more »
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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 »
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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 »
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Is This Energy Stock Inflated With Value or Thin Air?
By Nathan Kirykos - April 4, 2013 | Tickers: ERF, NBL, OAS, SYRG
While looking for the next hot Basin in the U.S., nobody can afford to overlook the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin that hosts the emerging Niobrara shale. Although the large caps attract most of the attention, in any play there are unheralded companies that are worth researching as they may be overvalued, undervalued, or potential buyout targets. -
Is Synergy Resources Inflated With Value or Thin Air?
By Nathan Kirykos - April 1, 2013 | Tickers: ERF, NBL, OAS, SYRG
Looking for the next hot Basin in the US, nobody can afford to overlook the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin that hosts the emerging Niobrara shale. Although the large caps attract most of the attention, in any play there are unheralded companies that worth a research, as they may be overvalued, undervalued or potential buyout targets. -
The Right Driller To Own (And The Wrong One)
By Dana Blankenhorn - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, OAS
Investors who want to get in on the fracking boom had a bandleader in Aubrey McClendon.
The founder of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) believed from the start that fracking – cracking shale deep underground with sand and water under high pressure – could unlock vast oil and gas riches. And history has proven him right.
But the bandleader is not always the right man to lead the band, and if you followed more »
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Unlock Hess' Hidden Asset Value
By Anh HOANG - February 11, 2013 | Tickers: CLR, HES, OAS
Recently, Elliott Management, under billionaire Paul Singer’s leadership, has been more active in Hess Corp (NYSE: HES). Elliott said that it would nominate five executives to the board to push for restructuring. Elliott, which manages $21.5 billion in assets, has taken a 4% stake in Hess. The investment in Hess could be considered the largest initial investment in Elliott’s history. Elliott mentioned that if Hess did what more »
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Will This Oil and Gas Play Push Your Returns North?
By Callum Turcan - January 15, 2013 | Tickers: HES, KOG, NOG, OAS
Producing in America, for America
Northern Oil and Gas (NYSEMKT: NOG) "is a Williston Basin Bakken and Three Forks pure play" and owns 184,000 net mineral acres in North Dakota and Montana. In its latest earnings report (Q3) Northern reported production levels of 11,282 Boe (barrels of oil equivalent) per day on average. This was a whopping 96% growth in production. Northern's booming production levels is what more »
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Billionaire Louis Bacon’s Best Stock Picks
By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 14, 2013 | Tickers: ALTE, AGO, GNC, KOG, OAS
Small and mid-cap stocks don’t get as much attention from analysts and the financial press, which often leaves them less efficiently priced than the large and mega-caps. Hedge funds sometimes take advantage of this by dedicating their research teams to work on these stocks as well, so they often earn substantial alpha from their investments.
Retail investors can use hedge funds' top small-caps as a screening device; we’ve more »
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5 Energy Stocks Billionaire Louis Bacon Loves
By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 3, 2013 | Tickers: DVN, EOG, KOG, MRO, OAS
Louis Bacon manages $15 billion at Moore Capital Management, and his net worth has been estimated at $1.5 billion. Bacon received an MBA from Columbia and worked on the New York Cotton Exchange as a runner before founding Moore Capital in 1989. Bacon's flagship fund Moore Global Investments has returned 31% annually since its inception in 1990 and was up 26% last year. According to Moore’s latest more »
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How to Spot Oil & Gas Takeover Targets
By Robert Baillieul - December 16, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, CVX, COP, CSCTF, XOM, KOG, OAS, STO
The recent high profile takeovers of Canadian energy firms Nexen (NYSE: NXY) and Progress Energy (NASDAQOTH: PRQNF) highlight the profit potential of spotting takeover targets in the energy space. Overnight, Nexen and Progress shareholders earned eye-popping 50% and 70% returns respectively.
But you don’t have to be H.L. Hunt to spot the next deal in the oil patch. Energy buyout candidates usually exhibit at least one of four common traits.
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One Bakken Stock to Rule Them All
By Kirk Spano - December 10, 2012 | Tickers: CLR, XOM, KOG, OAS
In the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations of the Williston Basin, the oil boom taking shape is of historical proportions. Finding exploration and production companies that are successfully finding oil is not that difficult. Finding companies with the expertise, acreage and scale to generate fat bottom lines is more challenging.
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This Oil Shale Stock is Opportunistic, Despite Huge CEO Sells
By Anh HOANG - December 4, 2012 | Tickers: CLR, DNR, EOX, XOM, OAS
After being upgraded by analysts, this oil and natural gas independent exploration and production company has seen its CEO sell a great deal of his own stock in the market. That oil/gas company is Oasis Petroleum (NYSE: OAS). In the middle of Nov. 14, it was upgraded from neutral rating to buy with a $40 target price by SunTrust. In three days from Nov. 26-28, Thomas Nusz, the company more »
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Another Catalyst for Bakken Stocks
By Kirk Spano - September 12, 2012 | Tickers: CLR, KOG, OAS, TSO, WLL
In my recent article titled "Run is Done for Tesoro" I pointed out that the increase in price on Williston oil versus WTI was a downer for Tesoro (NYSE: TSO). That same circumstance is a boon for the Williston E&P plays, however.
The main driver to the increased Williston oil price has been the development of three types of infrastructure in the Williston region. First off, more rail lines more »
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Why are Insiders Selling Oasis Petroleum Shares?
By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 12, 2012 | Tickers: KOG, OAS, SLB, STO
Bakken Shale-focused Oasis Petroleum (NYSE: OAS) has been riding the shale oil boom. In the second quarter of 2012 its revenue was more than double its revenue from the second quarter of 2011, and net income grew 128%. Earnings per share rose at the same rate as shares outstanding remained roughly unchanged. This performance actually represents a slowing of the company’s growth: in the first half of the year more »
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The Rise of the Three Forks
By Eric Fox - August 29, 2012 | Tickers: CLR, MUR, NFX, OAS, SWN
The Three Forks formation lies below the Bakken in many of the same areas in North Dakota and Montana and saw additional testing and development by oil and gas operators active in the area during the second quarter of 2012.
Leader
Continental Resources (NYSE: CLR) has done more development in the Three Forks formation than any other operator active in the area. The company has delineated the play into four more »
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The Rockin' Bakken Party is Just Startin'
By Kirk Spano - August 16, 2012 | Tickers: KOG, MHR, OAS, TPLM
Among those who follow the energy industry, the Bakken Oil Shale might seem like old news. But for everybody else, it is still only on the periphery of their investing consciousness. This is good for those who want to establish positions in some of the wonderful companies associated with the Williston Basin oil shale plays as many stocks are not pricing in relatively easy-to-predict future free cash flows.
In reality more »
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An Oasis in the Oil Patch
By Kirk Spano - August 15, 2012 | Tickers: CLR, KOG, OAS
Having spent considerable time in North Dakota and Texas the past two years I have been able to study the oil and gas industries very close up including visiting many drilling sites in the Williston Basin. Among the smaller companies with wide open growth potential that is rarely mentioned in the press is Oasis Petroleum (NYSE: OAS).
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Build Your Own Bakken ETF
By Kirk Spano - March 4, 2012 | Tickers: KOG, MHR, NOG, OAS, TPLM |
Take advantage of small and mid-size company Bakken oil plays ramping growth and likely acquisitions.
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