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…
Share prices don’t just move up or down because of good or bad financial results, and thankfully so. If they did, we’d have little to get excited about between quarterly, half-yearly and/or full year updates. Prices also move on changes in sentiment towards economic and sector growth. But that’s not all. Clients are often very…
It was an eventful week for the UK 100 , many China-exposed shares seeing significant volatility due to their exposure to the on-again-off-again US-China trade war. With many metals & mining companies reporting next week, here’s what we’re paying attention to. The reporting calendar for next week is chock full of Mining companies, both big…