All Tech stocks may seem equal. But some are more equal than others. The recent US tech rally produced some spectacular equity gains, but the latest corporate results may have finally separated the wheat from the chaff. Here’s how we separated them. By now, everyone must have heard about Facebook’s embarrassing 19% ‘face-plant’ that wiped…
Friday, 27 July Proactive Investors “The shale deal presents a promising opportunity for BP to reverse many years of underinvestment,” said Artjom Hatsaturjants, analyst at Accendo Markets. http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/201734/city-reacts-to-bps-us105bn-us-shale-deal-with-bhp-billiton-201734.html Thursday, 26 July AFP “Total is also benefiting from reopening of Libya’s oil exporting capacity,” Accendo Markets research analyst Artjom Hatsaturjants told AFP. https://mg.co.za/article/2018-07-26-europes-energy-giants-reap-benefits-of-oil-price-surge Wednesday, 25 July…
The oil supermajor BP announced this morning that it will purchase $10.5bn worth of US shale oil assets from BHP Billiton, marking a triumphant Stateside return. A widely-maligned energy company is looking to revitalise its upstream capacity by adding additional 190K barrels of daily oil equivalent production after many years of retrenchment and miserable…
Announcements of new share buybacks are traditionally greeted by share price rises, the expectation being that the company buying lots of shares will push the price higher, or at least support it, thanks to a forced buyer being out there. But that’s not the case this morning for either Shell ($25bn 2018-20; $2bn in next…
Shares in power-generation company Drax Group are -5% in mid-morning trading after the company reported significantly reduced earnings (EBITDA -15.7% YoY) and operating cash flow (-43% YoY). Two unplanned generation unit outages and £27m in coal asset write-offs are stated as the primary reason for much of the pre-tax earnings losses, while some of the…
Another prime example of read-across hurting the sector. This time it’s the airlines. A downbeat outlook message from Ryanair on Q2 pricing, zero H2 visibility, higher fuel costs, the risk of more disruption (ATC and crew strikes) and, of course, Brexit is weighing on both it and peers. Especially easyJet, even after it upgraded guidance…