May 9, 2018 @ 7:12 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, PXD, STO, Update, Volatility |
Some days you need to search for an explanation for a market move. Other days the explanation hits you over the head. Today crude oil is up, in a strong but orderly move. Two catalysts. First, yesterday President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of...
May 7, 2018 @ 6:48 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, Volatility |
So much near-term noise. Since Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) reported earnings on May 2–the company beat Wall Street estimates on earnings by 16 cents a share and reported revenue in-line with projections and up 56.5% year over year–there’s been...
April 30, 2018 @ 12:54 pm | Breaking News, FANG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, STO |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he will make a statement at 8 p.m. Tel Aviv time tonight on a “significant development” regarding the Iranian nuclear pact. (As best as I can do the conversions, 8 p.m. in Tel Aviv is 1 p.m. in New York.)...
April 23, 2018 @ 7:56 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, FANG, HP, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, SLB, STO, Volatility |
Oil futures in New York settled at their highest since December 2014. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed 0.35% to close at $68.88 a barrel. International benchmark Brent crude rose 0.88% to $74.71 a barrel. The gains were unusual in that the U.S. dollar...
April 18, 2018 @ 6:49 pm | Breaking News, FANG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, PXD, STO |
West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 3.16% today to $68.80 a barrel. Futures for May delivery moved over $68 a barrel for the first time in three years. Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute reported a 1.05 million barrel draw down in U.S. inventories. Today the...
March 28, 2018 @ 7:42 pm | Breaking News, FANG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD |
Today Concho Resources (CXO) announced the acquisition of RSP Permian (RSPP) to create the biggest oil and natural gas producer from the shales of the Permian Basin. The $9.5 billion all stock deal represents a 29% premium to the Tuesday close for RSP Permian. That...
February 20, 2018 @ 7:17 pm | Breaking News, FANG, Jubak Picks Portfolio, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD |
The goal was to cut production enough to reduce global oil inventories to their five-year average. The hope of the coalition of OPEC and Russia that reduction in production would get oil prices up to $60 a barrel. Now with that inventory reduction just about in place...
December 4, 2017 @ 6:37 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD |
When West Texas Intermediate crude was struggling to stay above $50 a barrel, the important issues for a U.S. oil shale producer such as Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) were How much of production in 2018 was hedged above $50 a barrel? and How quickly the company...
August 23, 2017 @ 12:20 am | Breaking News, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, Update |
Back on August 1 Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) reported second quarter earnings of 21 cents a share, beating the Wall Street consensus by 10 cents a share. Revenue climbed 107% year over year to $1.63 billion, way ahead of the Wall Street consensus at $1.06 billion....
February 9, 2017 @ 12:42 am | Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, Update |
Update: February 8, 2017. Shares of Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) closed up today, February 8, by 3.85% after this big player in the low-cost Permian Basin blew past earnings estimates and released aggressive guidance on future production growth. The company’s...
December 6, 2016 @ 6:53 pm | Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, Update |
Update December 6, 2016. Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), one the biggest oil shale producers in the low cost Permian Basin, filled in some details on its post-OPEC agreement on reducing production today at the Cowen & Co. Energy Conference. The company said it...
September 22, 2016 @ 7:19 pm | Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD, Update |
Update September 22. At the Johnson Rice energy conference yesterday, Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) announced that it plans to add 5 new horizontal drilling rigs to the 12 already at work on its leased acreage in the northern Spraberry/Wolfcamp area of the Permian...
January 16, 2012 @ 2:56 pm | Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, PXD |
I added Pioneer Natural Resources to my long-term Jubak Picks 50 portfolio https://jubakpicks.com/jubak-picks-50/ on Friday, January 13 (https://jubakpicks.com/2012/01/13/10-stocks-for-10-years-2012-edition-my-annual-update-of-my-long-term-jubak-picks-50-portfolio/ )...
January 5, 2010 @ 8:30 am | Breaking News, Leading Indicators, PXD, You May Have Missed |
Buy and hold isn’t dead, but its DNA sure could use a bit of genetic engineering. Buy and hold was never intended as buy and forget, but a great bull market run like the one that stretched from 1982 to 2000 made it seem like all an investor had to do was buy and then...