By Paul Sankey
Published on February 11, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Good day, We sent you a juicy note on Devon $DVN yesterday, “STOP. Unleash the FANG Within”. Plenty to read there, and a Valero paean “right now the best refining margins in February history” came out Friday afternoon. BREAKING: 2/11/24 (Wall Street Journal) — Two Permian rivals, Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources, are finalizing a merger that would create an oil-and-gas behemoth worth more than $50 billion. Diamondback could announce a deal with the …
Read More
By Paul Sankey
Published on February 10, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste There was a groan went up at Sankey Research at this week’s Reuters report that Devon was in talks to acquire Enerplus Corp (ERF). Why? The news broke as we were completing this note, which argues exactly the OPPOSITE strategy for Devon, than buying a company in the Bakken. We think they should SELLL the Bakken. And more besides, and we outline that herein. We agree DVN …
Read More
By Paul Sankey
Published on January 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Good day, There it is: Market at a record high. Congratulations to the wealthy of the USA. The top 10% of wealthiest Americans own 89% of stocks ($28 trillion). Americans in the 50th to 90th percentile of wealth own 11% of stocks ($3.4 trillion). Americans in the bottom 50% own <1% of stocks ($19 billion). As we say, the rich get richer and the poor migrate. Today we take a graphic-heavy run through some charts, …
Read More
