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Wrap – Week Ended 6/20/14
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Hot Money has definitely entered the energy groups. Hot Money doesn't care about EBITDA multiples or commodity hedge portfolios. Hot Money cares about tickers and charts. When the charts take a pause, Hot Money finds a new group to love (I dunno, maybe gold or some shiny new tech bauble). Anyway, expect to see more balancing trades from us soon as this kind of week after week rah-rah performance is not sustainable.
Busy time in IPO land:
- See our IPO piece on MRD here - the name is initially moving as expected, just more rapidly with support from the group and rising peer valuations. We established a starter Core here on opening day.
- See the VNOM piece here (turned out to be hotter than even we thought).
- Our comments from this piece on ECR are also working out pretty much as expected as they priced at the low end of the range on Friday at what still amounts to a lofty valuation scenario (at least from a near and medium term standpoint) and then went on to retreat in their first session,
Expect to see more of our names bring secondaries after this rally and expect to see more on the deal rumor front (if not actual deals) in E&P land.
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Z Can you suggest one book portfollio management? I'm looking for some guidence on asset allocation. ratios and other related issues. I'm not likely to totally change my style but I would like something to use as a reference. TIA
June 21st, 2014 at 5:49 amService names very strong last week: FTI, CAM, NBR, BHI, NOV Underwater names have run less than the SLB, HAL, NBR, BHI
June 21st, 2014 at 10:21 amThe refiner space is also catching fire. The largest gains in the above table from this past week are the Brent/WTI spread (36%) and the 3-2-1 crack (12%). PSX, TSO, and CVI each broke out to near term highs, with the others close behind.
The third largest gainer last week was TAN, the solar stock etf (7%). Domestic solar names (SCTY +31.55%, SPWR +12.86%, FSLR +6.87% this week) are benefiting from the tariff imposed on Chinese solar imports, the EPA clampdown on pollution, and improved economics due to relentless competition-induced cost reductions and slowly improving panel efficiency. SCTY's acquisition of an innovative domestic panel maker and new plans to build the world's largest solar panel plant in NY helped to juice the space this week.
June 21st, 2014 at 12:10 pmShell filed for an IPO of some of their midstream assets. This could start a movement among the 'big oil' names to refocus assets on higher return investments by dropping down midstream assets into MLPs and re-investing the capital into producing assets. This supports Z's point above about the potential for increased domestic M&A activity in the E&P space. The mega-cap names could certainly benefit from stronger production growth and this MLP strategy to re-deploy assets could provide them with the capital to invest in it. One concern that may be holding back the majors from acquiring domestic shale assets is the export ban on crude oil. Capacity limits for refining domestic light crude could eventually slow production in the next three years unless the ban is lifted. On the other hand, LNG export approvals have been moving forward so domestic natgas assets could become more attractive to the majors, especially with the global disparities in natgas prices and the bountiful arbitrage opportunity that could offer domestic natgas producers over the next 3-5 years.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/18/shellmidstream-ipo-idUSL4N0OZ2NP20140618
June 21st, 2014 at 12:41 pmWhat is your opinion of EQT ?
June 21st, 2014 at 7:11 pmBarron's – positive article about APA. Stock has underperformed over last 5 years. Mostly because a big chunk of their assets were in Egypt ( has sold 1/3 for $3B ). Improving their balance sheet, buying back shares. Putting a fair amount into the Permian (trend that should continue). Restructuring story.
June 22nd, 2014 at 11:59 amAPA should buy GDP.
June 22nd, 2014 at 1:16 pm