By Paul Sankey
Published on January 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Welcome to a historic week ahead, Day 1 Trump II… INCOMING SLB opens year-end 2024 oil earnings season with a winner – since the start of 2025 we like the oils. Call us twitchy bulls. The word China scares us, but we are looking for China demand upside starting with winter and scrambling for non-sanctioned oil. Our feeble bull case: Asian LNG is now more expensive than diesel in China, which should reverse marginal demand …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 1, 2024 at 4:08 PM
We sent you a rather different Thematic yesterday, covering $NESR, the delisted Middle East oil field service player, and the implications of their commentary on record levels of Middle East oil & gas development activity. So just a quick dash through a couple of charts today. Yesterday’s note is especially pertinent to the opening Keynote Speaker at Tuesday’s Barcap conference commencement – SLB, the artist formerly known as Schlumberger. So, plenty of corporate action this …
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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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