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  • Billionaire T. Boone Pickens’s Top Q1 Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: APA, DVN, GDP, OXY, PXD

    After becoming a billionaire through his success in the oilfields, T. Boone Pickens has moved into finance with his own hedge fund BP Capital (which manages a sizable portion of his own wealth). The fund, which concentrates on energy related investments, recently filed its 13F with the SEC, disclosing many of its long equity positions as of the end of March; see the full filing on the SEC's website more »

  • Smart Money Is Buying Hess

    By Mark Yagalla - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: CLR, HES, OXY

    Hess (NYSE: HES) is one stock that several hedge funds all have in their portfolio. In the latest 13F filings, we see that the stock is in the portfolio of Michael Price's MFP Investors, David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital, David Tepper's Appaloosa Management, John Paulson's Paulson & Co., Richard Perry's Perry Corp., and Paul Singer's Elliott Management. Elliott Management has been the most aggressive of the more »

  • Insights From CI Investments’ Five Big Buys

    By Aubrey Tabuga - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: ABBV, BAX, CVX, C, OXY

    CI Investments has recently won seven 2013 Lipper Fund Awards for its strong risk-adjusted returns relative to its peers. I looked into its first quarter big buys from a fundamental lens to provide investment insights. These are AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), Baxter (NYSE: BAX), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY), and Citigroup (NYSE: C).

    Interestingly, these stocks have all posted positive earnings surprises, have P/E ratios not higher than more »

  • With the Chairman Out Look for this Stock to Rise

    By Marshall Hargrave - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: CVX, XOM, OXY

    Shareholders in Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) can finally breathe a sigh of relief now that former Chairman Ray Irani is gone. Over the last four years he has taken over $200 million in compensation from the company and has made nearly $1.1 billion in his 20 years as CEO. Ray Irani decided on Friday to withdraw his name as a nominee to the company's board. This now clears more »

  • Oil’s Well at Occidental Petroleum

    By Diane Alter - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: CST, OXY, VLO

    Chalk another one up for activist shareholders.

    Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) investors just overwhelmingly (76%) voted to remove executive chairman Ray Irani from his position at the Los Angeles-based integrated oil and petroleum company.

    The ouster comes two years after Irani, one of the highest-paid corporate executives in the United States, was forced to step down as the company's CEO. Irani served as chairman and CEO from 1990 to more »

  • Could Boardroom Battle Lead to Successful Split?

    By Mike Thiessen - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: COP, OXY, PSX

    Occidental Petroleum's (NYSE: OXY) boardroom has been a lively place of late. In early 2013, the company surprised shareholders with a "terse" announcement informing them of unexpected changes to the company's executive team. Specifically, Occidental's board announced that it was beginning an expedited headhunting process to find a successor for CEO Stephen Chazen. 


    While it is true that Mr. Chazen presided over a stock-price fall of more more »

  • A Prescription for a Healthy Retirement Plan from Stansberry’s Doc Eifrig

    By Streetwise Reports - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: CVX, XOM, OXY, RDS-B

    By Peter Byrne of The Energy Report

    What is the best way to juice up your portfolio for a rich retirement? Stansberry Research's resident medical doctor and retirement investment guru, David “Doc” Eifrig told The Energy Report that natural gas and uranium are here to stay and shared tips for maintaining financial and fiscal health for the golden years.

    Eifrig argued that cheap interest rates will generate more business more »

  • Billionaire David Shaw’s High Dividend Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: GE, JPM, OXY, PFE, PM

    We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors in our database, aiding us in our work developing investing strategies. We can also look at individual filings to see top managers’ favorite stocks in a number of categories, including stocks that pay substantial dividend yields, as a way to provide initial ideas that investors can research further if they like the company’s prospects. Here are billionaire David more »

  • Three Companies that Could Profit Big from Virgin Oil

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: APD, KMP, OXY

    One Texas oilman is betting big on being the first to get residual oil out of virgin oil fields. Eliot Roosevelt Jr., grandson of of FDR, is planning to partner up with Kinder Morgan Energy (NYSE: KMP) and Southern Company. While carbon dioxide recovery, a tertiary process of injecting CO2 into wells and making the oil slippery enough to to recovered by a second well, has been around for 40 more »

  • Investing in This Energy Sector may Reap Continued Strong Growth

    By Abir Karmakar - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: COP, KMP, OXY

    ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has struck the chord right since, the time it separated its marketing and refining division into Phillips 66, an independent company. When it comes to increasing shareholder value, ConocoPhillips is one of the stock market’s most reliable sectors in the recent couple of years. Being a cash-rich company, it is one of the biggest players in the oil industry. It has a decent dividend payout history more »

  • Three Companies that Could Profit Big from Virgin Oil

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: APD, KMP, OXY

    One Texas oilman is betting big on being the first to get residual oil out of virgin oil fields. Eliot Roosevelt Jr., grandson of of FDR, is planning to partner up with Kinder Morgan Energy (NYSE: KMP) and Southern Company. While carbon dioxide recovery, a tertiary process of injecting CO2 into wells and making the oil slippery enough to to recovered by a second well, has been around for 40 more »

  • 5 Dividend Picks From Billionaire Steve Cohen

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: CVC, ECA, OXY, PBR, TXN

    In reviewing billionaire Steve Cohen and SAC Capital's big shakeups last quarter, we at Insider Monkey found five dividend stocks that Cohen and his $14 billion hedge fund own. A couple of them are under-the-radar stocks and could be great additions to anyone looking to add an income and growth stock to their portfolio.

    One of Cohen's largest positions  -- 14th in his 4Q portfolio -- is the dividend paying more »

  • Cover Calls Attractive with Market High

    By Jonathan Yates - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: CVX, INTC, MSFT, OXY

    With the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting record highs, this has become a market for writing covered call options. Last June, my first article as a blogger for The Motley Fool, “Writing Covered Call Options on Big Oil Could Yield Big Gains,“ detailed the benefits of writing covered call options on Big Oil stocks such as Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY). Now that the Dow has surged more »

  • 5 Bullish Income Plays by This Mega-Billionaire

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: AVB, GE, JPM, OXY, PM

    David Elliot Shaw, more commonly known as D. E. Shaw, founded his hedge fund firm, D. E. Shaw & Co., in 1988. Shaw’s $28 billion firm primarily relies on quantitative methods to benefit from security pricing anomalies, but has lately expanded its use of qualitative methods to pick winning stocks. This quant-based firm’s flagship macro fund, the $9 billion Oculus Fund, returned 18% last year. Another one of its more »

  • Energy Stocks Down On Their Luck; Consider These 3

    By Casey Hoerth - March 13, 2013 | Tickers: BBEP, COP, OXY

    The rally continues. With a pullback in late February only knocking down the S&P 500 index by 3%, it seems the "dip" that everyone was waiting for never came. Troughing at 1485 on February 26th, this broad index has climbed to a multi-year high of just over 1540, an increase of another 3.7%.

    For those value minded investors who don't like to chase, myself included, the pressing more »

  • Billionaire T. Boone Pickens' Energy Moves

    By Marshall Hargrave - March 11, 2013 | Tickers: EOG, MRO, OXY, RRC, WLL

    Billionaire investor and oilman-turned-hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens runs an energy-concentrated hedge fund, BP Capital. His fund is generally invested 90% in energy-related stocks and 10% in commodities. With energy a hot-button topic, I thought it only worthwhile to take a look at how one of the top energy investors and his hedge fund are investing for 2013 (see all of Pickens' picks).

    Pickens is upping his stake...

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  • Dividend Safety in the Oil & Gas Giants

    By Ash Anderson - March 6, 2013 | Tickers: CVX, XOM, OXY

    There’s no doubt that one of the most stable industries out there is that of the integrated oil and gas firms. These companies are highly profitable and tend to pay some of the highest dividends in the market. The three stocks highlighted in this article are U.S. traded and major players in the oil and gas space.

    So, why these three? Well, each one has an annual dividend more »

  • How This Multi-Billion Dollar Hedge Fund Was Preparing for 2013

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - February 26, 2013 | Tickers: COP, MSFT, OXY, SBAC, VOD

    Hedge funds often get a bad rap, but the smart money still has plenty of investing chops if you know where to look. At Insider Monkey, we’ve found that historically, the best stock picks of the best fund managers can beat the market, and quite handily at that. For more than a decade, our small-cap strategy generated an outperformance of 18% a year, and since we started sharing these more »

  • 3 Stocks You Will Love From Diamond's Portfolio

    By Shweta Dubey - February 26, 2013 | Tickers: DHIL, HIG, OXY, BA, UTX

    Diamond Hill's (NASDAQ: DHIL) investment strategy is aligned with the principles of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. It mainly invests in companies when they are trading at a discounted rate as compared to the future cash flow projection of the firm. Diamond diversifies its investments in order to reduce risk and concentrates on long-term investments. As per the recent filings, Diamond Hill mainly focused on the financial (26.2 more »

  • 3 Stocks Riding the Hard-to-Reach-Oil Boom

    By Steve Peasley - February 21, 2013 | Tickers: CAM, OXY, OII

    With more and more new sources of oil and gas found tucked away under the ocean or in land rock formations, the companies that specialize in getting out those hard-to-reach deposits will prosper. Three in particular should benefit: Oceaneering International (NYSE: OII), Cameron International (NYSE: CAM) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY).

    In the near term, their success hinges on future prices of oil and gas. A slide in energy prices more »

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