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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Interesting EPS: Not One, but Two OSX Names to Like, and More

By Paul Sankey Published on July 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM

There’s an oilfield service stock we like! FTI. There is an almost-oilfield service stock we like: Synopsis Energy Infrastructure. Other results Valero, great company. Enphase, single biggest loser from Trump II – painful place to be, we are not far off six months in, to four years. We do a little turn on Darling, after Valero, below, and a couple of others at the end, called things like Tesla and Google. So, some very interesting …

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Sunday Russia & Tech, Lovers & Losers… Rigged

By Paul Sankey Published on February 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM

With so much macro noise, veritable banging and crashing, headlines emanating from The White House, it is also notable how much micro, company-specific news, we are getting. Stock price divergence has been high to start the year, for example among the Monopoly 7 (Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, Nvidia). In my memory of the “Monopoly 7”, we have never seen one each of the Mag 7 in each performance quadrant on the x-plot below. …

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