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  • 3 Oil Companies Fueling Growth Prospects

    By Shweta Dubey - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: PXD, SWN, VLO

    The volatility of oil prices has brought a lot of uncertainty about the stable revenues for oil and gas companies. This has pushed companies to focus mainly on increasing production to maintain their revenue, even in lower-price scenarios. Let's take a closer look at three of companies –  Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD), Southwestern Energy (NYSE: SWN), and Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO) – which are increasing their production capacities, either by more »

  • 3 Great Picks for the Energy Investor

    By Victor Selva - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: APA, XOM, PXD

    In the highly competitive oil and gas industry, some of the companie stand out for their scale and geographical reach. In this article, I will analyze three of the main players in the arena, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD), and Apache (NYSE: APA), in order to elucidate which giant offers the best investment prospects:

    A bright energy play

    Oil and natural gas company Pioneer Natural Resources established more »

  • An Energy Play You Should Look At

    By Victor Selva - April 19, 2013 | Tickers: APA, BP, PXD

    Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) is an oil and natural gas company that established dominance in the Permian sector during the late '90s. Although they dedicated most of that decade to high-risk, high-reward investments such as the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Tunisia, South Africa, and West Africa, Pioneer's turn to onshore oil exploitation has been central to improving the firm´s relative positioning.

    The company is expected to outperform more »

  • Pioneer Resources is a Top Energy Play

    By Victor Selva - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: APA, BP, CHK, PXD

    Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) is an oil and natural gas company that established dominance in the Permian sector during the late 90´s. Although they dedicated most of that decade to high-risk, high-reward investments such as the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Tunisia, South Africa, and West Africa, Pioneer's turn to onshore oil exploitation has been central to improving the firm´s relative positioning. The company is expected to 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 »

  • Pioneer Southwest Downgrades are an Entry Opportunity

    By Cory Renauer - March 1, 2013 | Tickers: MCEP, PXD, PSE

    Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners (NYSE: PSE) is an upstream master limited partnership formed by parent company Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) in 2007. The partnership was formed to own and acquire oil and gas assets mainly in the West Texas Spraberry field. As an MLP, the partnership receives tax breaks significant enough that it boasts an effective tax rate of about 1%. These savings allow the partnership to distribute larger more »

  • Chesapeake Reducing Per-Unit Production Costs

    By Cory Renauer - March 1, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, DVN, PXD

    On Feb. 21, Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) surprised Wall Street by beating estimates on both top and bottom lines. The company’s latest earnings call was focused on increasing profitability by shifting production from gas to liquids to boost revenue, and becoming more efficient to lower costs. To meet its efficiency goals the company intends to reduce capex and lower per-unit costs by transitioning to pad drilling.

    Transition to pad more »

  • Is This Oil and Gas Producer a Takeover Target?

    By Mike Thiessen - February 27, 2013 | Tickers: HES, PXD, EGY

    Although the company’s latest quarterly report showed a sharp slowdown in revenue growth and predicted an uncertain path forward, shares of Vaalco Energy (NYSE: EGY) could be due for short-term gains. In addition to the secular tailwind of a bull market for oil, the Houston-based oil-and-gas producer has several positive attributes.

    For starters, the company has a strong return-on-assets ratio of 27 percent and well over $2 in cash more »

  • Consider these latest big buys by Soros Fund Management

    By Aubrey Tabuga - February 25, 2013 | Tickers: C, CTXS, JPM, NES.DL, PXD

    In the fourth quarter, Soros Fund Management purchased 70 new stocks, increased its stake in 45, and sold 69 out.  Among the fund manager’s biggest buys are Citigroup (NYSE: C), Pioneer Natural Resources  (NYSE: PXD), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), and Citrix Systems(NASDAQ: CTXS). Here, I've looked into each of these big buys from a fundamental perspective. A quick glance into the investment decisions more »

  • 4 Large-Cap Energy Stocks Outperforming The Market With Strong Momentum

    By Nick Chiu - February 22, 2013 | Tickers: APC, CXO, EOG, PXD

    In this article I've presented four large-cap energy stocks in the Oil & Gas industry that have been outperforming the market YTD while gaining strong upside momentum. Below is the chart showing the YTD comparison for the 4 stocks and the S&P 500, including Concho Resources Inc. (NYSE: CXO), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC), EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EOG), and Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD). Pioneer led the gains more »

  • This Energy Stock Is Ready To Outpeform

    By Jordo Bivona - February 19, 2013 | Tickers: OXY, PXD, SDRL

    In a difficult quarter for the energy industry, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY), the largest onshore crude producer in the U.S., reported profits that beat analysts’ consensus estimates. Excluding a $1.1 billion write-down for the impairment in value of natural gas assets, fourth-quarter EPS was $1.83 a share, which exceeded the average of 23 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

    This article examines how the company was able to more »

  • Billionaire Steve Cohen's Big Bet On Oil & Gas

    By Marshall Hargrave - February 8, 2013 | Tickers: FST, NFX, PXD, KWK

    Forest Oil (NYSE: FST) is down almost 50% over the last twelve months, but that has not been a deterrent for billionaire Steve Cohen of SAC Capital. A recent SEC filing shows that Cohen upped his stake in Forest Oil by 150%; he owned 4.6 million shares at the end of the third quarter and now owns 11.5 million shares, or 9.8% of Forest Oil's outstanding more »

  • Bad Ethics Outweigh Assets for This Energy Player

    By Jordo Bivona - January 27, 2013 | Tickers: CHK, PXD, SD

    Editor's Note: TPG-Axon Capital and Mount Kellett Capital have neither explicitly stated they were looking to sell the company. This version has been corrected to accurately reflect their comments.

    Reuters published an investigative report on SandRidge Energy (NYSE: SD) pointing out how founder and CEO Tom Ward mingled his own financial interests with those of the company with the use of tactics similar to Chesapeake Energy's (NYSE: CHKmore »)

  • Analyzing Top Three Picks of T. Boone Pickens

    By Madhu Dube - January 23, 2013 | Tickers: PXD, SWN, VLO

    According to its last 13F filling, T Boone Pickens' BP Capital management had Valero Energy, Pioneer Natural Resources and Southwestern Energy Corporation as its top three holdings. BP Capital manages two funds: Capital Commodity and Capital Equity. Both invest mainly in energy companies in industries such as oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. With this idea in mind ~78% of the fund’s Portfolio is invested in Energy Stocks. Its more »

  • What the Freeport-McMoRan Acquisition Means for Plains Exploration?

    By Dr. Osman Gulseven - December 18, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, FCX, MMR, PXD, PXP

    Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) has made an offer to acquire both Plains Exploration & Production (NYSE: PXP) and fellow junior oil and gas explorer Mcmoran Exploration (NYSE: MMR).  Initially the deal was seen as all positive for the juniors, since both have heavy debt loads and stand to benefit from an infusion of Freeport cash. However, analysts were quick to jump in with downgrades of Plains, since the deal calls for its more »

  • Sanchez's Eagle Ford Now and Bakken Later Plan

    By Kirk Spano - December 8, 2012 | Tickers: APA, EOG, PXD, SN

    "Now and Later's" were great candy back when we were kids.  Now and later is a great strategy for oil production profits too.  

  • Billionaire George Soros’s New Stock Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - November 21, 2012 | Tickers: AIG, GOOG, LNKD, PXD, WAG

    George Soros’s Soros Fund Management filed its 13F with the SEC earlier this month (find out what stocks Soros reported owning and read our analysis of his activity during the third quarter). By comparing 13F filings for the end of September with filings for the end of June, we can identify new positions in a hedge fund or other notable investor’s portfolio- stocks which they had only started more »

  • For Natural Gas Producers, It's All About Oil

    By Peter Horn - November 16, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, DVN, ECA, EOG, PXD

    The low price of natural gas tossed shares of US independent producers into the garbage. Some escaped the wrath of Mr. Market temporarily, by shifting drilling to wet gas opportunities. Others have more radically shifted their focus to unconventional oil shale opportunities. Regardless of the exact method, most are working hard to raise the mix of liquids in their production.

    Shareholders of companies that have made that transition successfully, like more »

  • This Company Could Jump On Oil Market Stabilization

    By Jordo Bivona - November 14, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, CLR, ECA, PXD, SD

    SandRidge Energy (NYSE: SD) is already the leading oil driller in the state of Kansas and will continue to be so deep into the future as the company announced at the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association convention earlier this year that the company will drill 200 wells in the state in 2013. Its average production per well across Kansas and Oklahoma is 325 barrels of oil equivalent per day, with more »

  • Analyzing T. Boone Pickens' Top Holdings

    By Shweta Dubey - November 4, 2012 | Tickers: MMR, PXD, RIG

    T. Boone Pickens is a successful Oil and Gas entrepreneur and investor. He founded Mesa Petroleum which became one of the largest independent Oil companies by 1981. Pickens sold Mesa in 1996 and founded his hedge fund BP Capital LLC in 1997 in which he manages a portfolio of energy companies. The following is a list of the top three holdings of BP Capital.

    Company Name

    Shares Held

    Transocean Ltd more »

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