Sunday Heavyweights and Knife Fights

By Paul Sankey Published on November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Busy week ahead! ENI ringing the bell on the NYSE tomorrow with management comments meeting for analysts. I’m seeing if I can jump on CNBC while I am on the exchange floor. It is a TV set and bell ringing photo op these days. The traders nowadays are chips in data centers. Those guys on the floor are extras. Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill dinner on Tuesday. CVX post-Hess analyst meeting Wednesday November 12th. Happy Hours …

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Valuing AI in Texas Pacific Land (& Permian Oils)

By Paul Sankey Published on June 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM

“There is a Lot of Land in West Texas” One of the oldest oil companies in currently quoted US oil equities, Texas Pacfiic Land, originating in 1871, is a barely known outsider that emerged seemingly from nowhere to S&P500 inclusion in 2024: TPL now has a larger market cap (no debt) than Devon, Coterra, Halliburton, Antero or Permian Resources. In this note we deconstruct TPL’s valuation, and establish the massive implied AI Data Center land …

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Morning: Tide’s Half Way Out, Who’s Wearing Trunks?

By Paul Sankey Published on April 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Happy Hour 4pm tomorrow we got us an engineer! Macro guru Michael Kao is well-known for Kaoboy Musings – on Substack and Kaos Theory. His twitter handle is UrbanKaoboy. In a crisis, we all become credit analysts. Michael is a stone-cold macro expert. Register Here: https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-michael-kao-urbankaoboy-interest-form/ Source: Toptradersunplugged.com ~ Here are a couple of charts I have been looking at, rather back of a beermat, pondering that the tide is half way out. The tide …

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