T-bill yields are running higher than Exxon's dividend right now, but that gap shrinks fast once taxes, reinvestment risk, and a 43-year streak of dividend growth enter the picture.
Chris Lange Energy has a reputation for boom and bust, yet a handful of large-cap names have quietly handed investors raises for decades straight while crude prices swung wildly. These four companies reveal how…
Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM | XOM Price Prediction) is $132.90 over the next 12 months. That compares with a current price of $164.01. Metric Value Current Price…
A prominent fund manager went on live television to call Chevron and ExxonMobil cheap laggards, but the actual performance data from the past year tells a very different story about who is…
Four oil giants all pay dividends, but when crude prices drop, their balance sheets tell very different stories about which payouts survive and which ones get cut to the bone.
A third US carrier is reportedly heading to the Middle East and China just cut off fuel exports, hitting oil markets with two shocks at once. Whether the price spike holds or…
Refining stocks are breaking away from the integrated oil majors, and the gap places the bid directly on fuel margins. Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC | MPC Price Prediction) stock has risen 5% to…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher after the bulls charged early Wednesday after the August CPE inflation report came in better than expected. But by the close, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was…
The Senate came within seven votes of banning congressional stock trading, but a clause with nothing to do with stocks may have killed the whole effort. Here is what actually happened and…
Oil markets are operating with little room for error. West Texas Intermediate crude trades above $91 a barrel this morning, while the Iran conflict, disrupted shipping, and tight diesel supplies continue putting…
American households are already feeling the squeeze from higher energy costs. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported residential electricity prices were 4.9% higher in July than a year earlier, while the agency’s…
Chevron and ExxonMobil both carry Dividend Aristocrat status and record cash flows, but for a retiree counting on oil income through the next commodity bust, one of them carries a hidden risk…
Caterpillar just hit $20 billion in quarterly sales for the first time ever, while Exxon pumped out $23.6 billion in operating cash flow. Both companies raised their dividends, but their very different…
The Strait of Hormuz is closer to closed than open, yet crude just fell and Exxon barely stirred. Understanding that contradiction reveals exactly how much upside the market is leaving on the…
Omor Ibne Ehsan The ticker says energy, but the fund's holdings tell a much narrower story than most investors expect before they buy in.
