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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Morning oh Canada! Buy MEG?

By Paul Sankey Published on January 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Hybrid bonus Refining Conference/E&P Session tomorrow Thursday 4PM, leading private equity and refining executive: Jeff A. Stevens. Jeff was a stalwart of the Sankey Refining conference back when he was CEO of Western Refining, which was ultimately sold to Greg Goff’s Tesoro for $6bn in 2017. Subsequently he built and just sold a major Permian private E&P player, Franklin Mountain. He has fascinating insight to US oil investment. Coterra Announces Accretive Permian Basin Acquisitions November …

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Bullish 2050 Natgas and Kinder Chocolate

By Paul Sankey Published on December 17, 2024 at 8:58 AM

Meeting Kinder Morgan last week in Houston, with my old mate, IR and corporate VP Peter Staples (my other old mate CEO Kim Dang was in NY for a couple of conferences) I perused the just-released guidance for 2025 and made the following comment: “So KMI stock is on 22x price-earnings, based on your guidance for next year of $1.27 EPS. Your dividend yield is down towards 4% (stock has ripped), and you just announced …

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