HyperScalers vs Big Oils Capex Intensity

By Paul Sankey Published on October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Torsten Slok, Chief Economist Apollo, published this chart Monday, we are all familiar with the theme. Source: Torsten Slok, Apollo Considering the scale “Capex Share of Operating Cashflow %” made me wonder, and caused me to recreate the chart but add the Big Oils. Given Torsten lists five Hyperscalers, I simply used five historic mega-oils, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TOTAL, and BP. Result: Source: Bloomberg, Sankey Research That certainly changes the perspective, and obviously becomes a …

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Sunday Poison, Antidotes, Infestations and Condemnations

By Paul Sankey Published on September 22, 2024 at 3:07 PM

Good day! Today we go thematic, on the energy landscape in Washington DC, as the week ahead is relatively quiet for cyclical events. Bits and bobs on companies reporting, and economic news, but nothing big, in our view. Except watch out this week on Manhattan travel, for the annual end-September UN General Assembly and gridlock in Midtown. CNN: Slovenia’s UN envoy Samuel Žbogar, who is also the current president of the UN Security Council, described …

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Sunday Multiple Multiples

By Paul Sankey Published on August 18, 2024 at 4:07 PM

On Friday I chatted to a major & long term client, a gen-u-ine hedge fund portfolio manager, and I realized that all our stock views right now are about multiple expansion/contraction; because we cannot get there on a bullish macro call. So today we talk multiples. ~ People kindly ask me how its going at Sankey Research, and the response is that the primary driver of our business is “Oil’s share of the S&P500”. Below …

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