When Disaster Strikes: Neste, Vertex and “Renewable” Diesel

By Paul Sankey Published on May 15, 2024 at 4:42 PM

*** PREMIUM EVENT *** Tomorrow Happy Hour 4pm ED MORSE – the most tenured Wall Street (and DC) Oil guru, now Special Advisor to Hartree Partners, formerly Citi, CS, LCM, Lehman, Barclays, Hess, Phillips, President of Energy Intelligence, DOE under both Carter and Reagan, Princeton PhD, Johns Hopkins… the man is an oil legend. Register interest here: https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-ed-morse-interest-form/ Uncutting Ribbons, Restoring Emissions Renewable Diesel (RD) is a real-time disaster that provides a bitter cautionary tale …

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Sunday Disty, Luxury, and Sarkozy

By Paul Sankey Published on April 28, 2024 at 6:23 PM

Hello, Distracted by the Knicks WIN, this afternoon. Hard fought to 3-1 in the series vs Philadelphia. A quick run around on distillate today, we skip over a rabbit hole with luxury goods stocks, and brace you for a massive week of earnings for E&P, unless like the average investor, you own “XOM, or CVX, or COP, Valero, a midstream, and one other, let’s do FANG”. “Pitching OVV to portfolio managers is hard, however rational …

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Oil Earnings Results Post-Performance FWIW

By Paul Sankey Published on April 20, 2024 at 10:16 AM

A major client liked the chart we published last week, highlighting that Schlumberger has a pattern of under-performing quarterly earnings reports. Quod Errat Demonstrandum, as SLB under-performed on its results yesterday, despite a headline beat. All you can analyse is the margins, and guidance outlook change. They came in neutral to mildly negative on a stock that is relatively expensive. SLB was down -2.14% in a tape which saw the mighty energy sector XLE power …

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