Exxon Mobil Sees Full-Year Capital, Exploration Spending at Top End of $23B-$25B Guidance
Exxon Mobil Sees Full-Year Capital, Exploration Spending at Top End of $23B-$25B Guidance
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CFRA Keeps Buy Opinion On Shares Of Chevron Corporation
CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: Our 12-month target price of $162, cut $18, reflects a 5.7x multiple of enterprise value to projected 2024 EBITDA, modestly below CVX’s historical forward average. We cut our 2023 EPS estimate by $0.26 to $13.01 and 2024’s by $0.48 to $14.12. Q3 adjusted EPS of $3.05 vs. $5.56, missed the consensus view by $0.60. On a per-barrel of oil equivalent basis, we estimate CVX’s adjusted earnings in the third quarter were about 12% weaker than those of chief rival Exxon Mobil (XOM 105 ****), with international upstream as the main culprit. CVX’s pending acquisition of Hess Corporation (HES 145 ***) should enable some acceleration in international upstream production, as its stake in blocks offshore Guyana (where XOM is the chief operator) should help in the 2024-2025 time
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CFRA Keeps Buy Opinion On Shares Of Valero Energy Corporation
CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: Our 12-month target of $145, down $17, reflects a 6.1x multiple of projected 2024 operating cash flows, above VLO’s historical forward average. We reduce our 2023 EPS estimate by $0.35 to $25.65 and raise 2024’s by $1.26 to $16.23. Q3 EPS of $7.49 vs. $7.14 beat consensus estimates by $0.17. In Q3, adjusted EBITDA fell 6% Y/Y, while increasing ~10% sequentially, missing consensus estimates by ~10%. Refining utilization (95%) remained flat Y/Y and rose one percentage point sequentially, while throughput volumes (3.0 mb/d) rose 1% Y/Y and 2% sequentially. Refining margins ($19.47/b) fell ~9% Y/Y, while growing 25% sequentially due to its North Atlantic refining segment (+55%). We think that VLO should stand to benefit in the long run, given that OPEC+ production cuts are expected to
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CFRA Keeps Buy Opinion On Shares Of Halliburton Company
CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: Our 12-month target of $46, up $4, reflects an 8.7x multiple of EV to projected 2024 EBITDA, slightly above HAL’s historical average. We raise our 2023 EPS estimate by $0.05 to $3.07 and cut 2024’s by $0.09 to $3.47. Q3 EPS of $0.79 vs. $0.60, beat consensus by $0.02. Q3 revenues ($5.8B) rose 8% Y/Y, driven by HAL’s international segment (+17%). Amongst the “Big 3” services firms (HAL, SLB, and BKR), HAL holds the largest North American (NA) exposure (45% of 2022 revenues) vs. its peer average (22% of 2022 revenues). The EIA forecasts WTI pricing to average ~$80/b in 2023 (vs. $95/b in 2022) and $91/b in 2024. Given that drilled but uncompleted well count (DUCs) have dropped ~47% since Q1 2020 as E&Ps turned to
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RBC Capital maintains Chevron (NYSE:CVX) $180 price target
RBC Capital analyst Biraj Borkhataria reiterates Chevron (NYSE:CVX) with a Outperform and maintains $180 price target.
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CFRA Maintains Buy Opinion On Shares Of Nextera Energy, Inc.
CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: We lower our 12-month target by $8 to $64, 18.8x our 2024 EPS estimate (down $0.01 to $3.40; 2023 estimate remains $3.12), a premium to peers based on higher earnings and dividend growth potential, though a discount to NEE’s 10-year average of 21.8x given challenges for renewables developers in the higher interest rate environment. Despite somewhat weaker three-year consensus EPS growth expectations (closer to 8% CAGR vs. 9% previously), we think today’s price action (shares up about 5%) reflects NEE’s decision to leave overall guidance unchanged despite the recent announcement of a lower distribution growth trajectory for NextEra Energy Partners (NEP 26 NR), which falls under the NEER subsidiary. NEE reported Q3 EPS of $0.94 vs. $0.85, $0.06 above consensus as returns on capital investments offset higher
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Halliburton Announces Third Quarter 2023 Results
Halliburton Announces Third Quarter 2023 Results — Net income of $0.79 per diluted share. — Revenue of $5.8 billion and operating margin of 17.9%. — International revenue growth of 17% year on year. — Repurchases of approximately $200 million of common stock. HOUSTON—-October 24, 2023– Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) announced today net income of $716 million, or $0.79 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2023. This compares to net income for the second quarter of 2023 of $610 million, or $0.68 per diluted share and adjusted net income(1) , excluding the loss on transactions in Argentina, of $691 million, or $0.77 per diluted share(2) . Halliburton’s total revenue for the third quarter of 2023 was $5.8 billion, flat when compared to the second quarter of 2023. Operating income was $1.0 billion in the third quarter of 2023, a 3% increase when compared to the second quarter of 2023.
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NextEra Energy Q3 Adj. EPS $0.94 Beats $0.88 Estimate, Sales $7.17B Beat $7.09B Estimate
NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) reported quarterly adjusted earnings of $0.94 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $0.88 by 6.82 percent. This is a 10.59 percent increase over earnings of $0.85 per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $7.17 billion which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $7.09 billion by 1.16 percent. This is a 6.74 percent increase over sales of $6.72 billion the same period last year.
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Chevron Says It Will Buy Hess Corp. in All-stock Deal Worth $53 Billion
Chevron Says It Will Buy Hess Corp. in All-stock Deal Worth $53 Billion.
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Chevron: In January Expect to Recommend Increase to 1Q Dividend of 8% to $1.63
Chevron: In January Expect to Recommend Increase to 1Q Dividend of 8% to $1.63.
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Citigroup lowers EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG) price target from $144 to $135
Citigroup analyst Scott Gruber downgrades EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG) from Buy to Neutral and lowers the price target from $144 to $135.
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CFRA Keeps Buy Opinion On Shares Of Chevron Corporation
CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows: CVX is buying upstream peer Hess Corporation (HES 163 ***) in an all-stock deal valued at about $58 billion. Per the deal, each share of HES will be exchanged for 1.025 shares of CVX stock. We estimate the deal at an enterprise value to 2024 EBITDA multiple of 8.1x, in line with HES’s five-year historical forward average, and only 1% above HES’s current multiple. The deal is expected to close in early 2024, and CVX views it as accretive by 2025. We like the deal for CVX both from a strategic and valuation standpoint. Strategically, CVX adds more oil exposure in long-cycle plays (Guyana), which complements CVX’s expansion in the short-cycle Permian Basin. On valuation, we are surprised at the minimal premium needed, and the lack of
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