September 28, 2017 @ 7:43 pm | Breaking News |
President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the top line corporate tax rate to 20%. What stocks might get a boost from any anticipation of that proposal becoming law? First, recognize that until very recently the stock market wasn’t doing a very good job at...
September 26, 2017 @ 7:56 pm | Breaking News, CHK, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update |
Today, Chesapeake Energy (CHK), the second largest U.S. producer of natural gas, said that it expects to see production in the third quarter of 542,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day versus the previous estimate of 550,000. The company also lowered its forecast for...
August 4, 2017 @ 7:41 pm | Breaking News, CHK, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update, Volatility |
There’s really nothing wrong with Chesapeake Energy (CHK) that an increase in natural gas prices wouldn’t fix. Yesterday, August 3, Chesapeake reported second quarter earnings of 18 cents a share after subtracting one-time events. In the second quarter of...
July 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, LNG, Update |
One worry hanging over shares of Cheniere Energy (LNG), the first company to get an unrestricted license to export liquified natural gas (LNG) to any country in the world, was what would happen if some of the customers that signed a long-term contract to buy LNG from...
May 12, 2017 @ 4:03 pm | Breaking News, Jubak Picks Portfolio, LNG, Update, Z-SYMBOLS (select below) |
Earlier this week the Trump administration announced that it had reached an agreement with China to increase market access for U.S. energy companies. Today Cheniere Energy (LNG) noted that it has had extensive negotiations with Chinese state-owned companies about...
April 12, 2017 @ 7:54 pm | Breaking News |
As of April 7 Wall Street analysts are expecting year over year earnings growth of 9.2% for the stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 for the first quarter of 2017, according to Yardeni Research. FactSet’s estimates are just slightly lower at 8.9% year...
March 10, 2017 @ 7:38 pm | Buy, Dividend Income Portfolio, HP |
I’ve been arguing recently that you need to own a piece of the Permian Basin in your portfolio. On February 10 https://jubakpicks.com/my-first-picks-for-buying-a-piece-of-the-permian/ I even gave you my first two picks, producers Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD)...
March 9, 2017 @ 4:46 pm | Breaking News, Volatility |
West Texas Intermediate was down 2.74% to $48.90 a barrel today as of noon New York time. International benchmark Brent crude was lower by 2.60% to $51.73 a barrel. The drop in West Texas Intermediate brought the price per barrel below the psychologically important...
March 3, 2017 @ 7:51 pm | CHK, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
On February 23 Chesapeake Energy (CHK) reported another big step toward break-even. The company’s net loss for the fourth quarter fell to $741 million (or 84 cents a share) from $2.23 billion (or $3.36 a share) in the fourth quarter of 2015. Investors were...
December 9, 2016 @ 7:07 pm | Jubak Picks Portfolio, LNG, Update |
Update December 9, 2016 The Cheniere Energy story is pretty simple. The company got the first license to export liquified natural gas from the United States, locked in long-term contracts for its Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi terminals, and then waited for revenue to...
September 27, 2016 @ 7:43 pm | CHK, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio, Update, Volatility |
Update September 27, 2016 Earlier this month Carl Icahn cut his position in Chesapeake Energy (CHK) by more than half. Nothing to worry about for other shareholders, he said. The sale was for tax reasons. Well, today that “Move along. Nothing to see here”...
September 6, 2016 @ 7:39 pm | CHK, Jubak Top 50 Portfolio |
Update September 6. Today shares of Chesapeake Energy (CHK) climbed 3.03% to close at $6.80 in the first post-Labor-Day trading session. The shares finished 24.8% ahead in August. Part of this was thanks to the market. A weaker than expected report on the...
June 27, 2015 @ 5:06 pm | Buy, XOM |
Normally I look for dividend yields above 4% or 5% for my dividend income portfolio. On this measure, Exxon Mobil (XOM) with its 3.35% yield isn’t exactly an astounding opportunity. But something out of a recent report from Goldman Sachs caught my eye: Exxon Mobile...
December 10, 2009 @ 3:00 pm | Sell |
I’m going to continue to diversify my Dividend Income Portfolio by selling Enbridge Energy Partners (EEP.) It’s one of three pipeline master limited partnerships in the portfolio. The sale of this position plus the sale of Natural Resource Partners (NRP) earlier...