Smart investors appear to agree: three energy gurus led by Warren Buffett himself have chosen to follow the Oracle's time-tested market wisdom of being fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. Over the last few weeks, Buffett, Jerry Jones and Harold Hamm--three of the richest and most successful businessmen in the U.S.-- have doubled down on their oil and gas bets, using the selloff as a buying opportunity.
Between June 17 and June 22, Buffett bought 9 million shares of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) for around $56 per share, which compares favorably with his previous purchase of OXY in the $50-58 range. In effect, Buffett now owns 25% of OXY, counting his warrants and total shares purchased. The Oracle of Omaha also owns a $20-billion stake in Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX). Warren Buffett is ranked the world's 7th richest person with a net worth of $96.9B. Unfortunately, Buffet has seen his net worth shrink by $13.4B in the year-to-date, mainly due to the poor performance of his other U.S. stock investments thanks to a wide market selloff.
Several weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal featured Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in a story detailing how the billionaire grew his $1.1B investment in natural gas producer Comstock Resources Inc. (NYSE:CRK) into $2.7B. Interestingly, Jones bought control of Comstock Resources at the depths of the gas bust before natural gas prices made a dramatic U-turn. Jerry Jones is #182 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $10.7B, marking a nearly 15% increase.
Meanwhile, Harold Hamm, majority owner of shale exploration giant Continental Resources (NYSE:CLR), has gone on an all-out war to buy back the company's minority stake. Earlier this month, Hamm offered to buy the remainder of the shale driller he and his family don't already own for $4.3 billion, or $70/share, claiming that his company is grossly undervalued. The Hamm Family collectively owns 83% of the total outstanding shares of common stock.
Some analysis including city index expected oil could drop as lower as US45/barrel meanwhile JP Morgan firmly believed that global oil prices could climb to a "stratospheric" $380/bbl if G7 nations succeed in imposing caps on the price of Russian oil and prompt Vladimir Putin to inflict retaliatory production cuts.
According to JPM, Russia's robust fiscal position means the country can afford to slash crude output by as much as 5M bbl/day without excessively damaging its economy. However, such a drastic reduction would be bad news for oil consumers as it would push Brent crude prices to $380/bbl.
Remember last year JP Morgan is the one who predicted oil could hit usd 100/bbl....
Today Goldman Sachs is bullish on oil price and believed oil can surpass usd140/bbl....
Oil prices may be dropping, but oil is still headed for $140 per barrel, Goldman Sachs told CNBC on Thursday, and could even hit $140 in the face of a recession.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gravely injured in shooting Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was giving a speech in the city of Nara ahead of an election for the upper house of Parliament, NBC News reports.
Sapura high dept & poor management. Veleslow different story, dept manageable...tarak hutang tarak susah. Velesto under recovery from 2020 & 2021 downfall due to global covid catastrophic. Can't depend on 2nd qtr profit as for now but future recovery is imminent, but you must consider the oil price also. High oil price mean high daily rigs rate.
Other stocks also plunging down even consecutive qtr returned to black...look at Armada, hibiscus, dialog & etc. One thing is clear, no fund flowing in from foreign investors. Foreign Investors moving away from bursa. Our country got bunch of lousy administrators. If DSAB become PM, sure meletop one.
Our insiders is powerless to influence the stock price drastically, only foreign IB got huge fund...they buy huge equities from our stock market but now they're throwing.
Foreingn IB also react to crude oil price. They assumed Brent is crashing. Buy and keep lah sure got recovery one. The famous investors gurus also buying O&G counters...they not dump
PNB is the major shareholder. sapura energy ald fail, they won't let this fail again, else they will no face. no matter how, they will try to push it up........ observe this month or this few months, a couple of news or story will come out
Oil price dropping meanwhile buffet is building up his equity in O&G ....
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has bought another 4.3 million shares in Occidental Petroleum, bringing its total stake in the company to 19.2 percent, Reuters has reported, citing an SEC filing by Buffett’s investment vehicle.
The stock purchase is the latest in a series that has seen Berkshire Hathaway increase its interest in Oxy from less than 14 percent to close to 20 percent. This has prompted talk that the investment firm might be planning to take over the oil major.
I think max can go is 0.07c (or perhaps in worse case 0.06). Oil gaining momentum back. I don't think oil will crash below Usd 80bbl. If crude oil can maintain average around 90 to 100usd then there's no reason veleslow can drop far below. 2c opinions.
Basically, if "very slow" could not win contract from international players instead of petronas, they will be loss making in 2022 & 2023 !! As petronas projection for their rigs are flatish for these 2 years !!
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Posted by Macgyver11 > 2022-07-07 14:23 | Report Abuse
Oh nooooo!