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April 27, 2025

DOW/ EMN/ LYB/ PSX: A Few Interesting Tidbits from the Chemicals World

By Timm Schneider

Within we provide a detailed summary of key takeaways from DOW/ EMN/ LYB and PSX as we believe these chemical giants are extremely important barometers for the direction of the overall economy. They are also…

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April 24, 2025

Key Take(s) from EQT & RRC Calls: Why Exactly Am I Long Natural Gas Right Now…?

By Timm Schneider

…Natural Gas the commodity (Natural Gas: 2025 Lows (Reluctantly) Push Us into the Bull Camp), not Natural Gas equities. The latter call has been quite accretive. We do not have a position in RRC, but…

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April 24, 2025

MTDR (N/R): Positive Feedback on Lower Activity Levels; Will Others Follow? Love all the Sector M&A Speculation…

By Timm Schneider

MTDR is the first ‘oily-ish’ E&P to report under our coverage universe. We don’t have a horse in the race w/ MTDR (no position in survey portfolio), but thought some of the industry implications from…

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April 23, 2025

Natural Gas: 2025 Lows (Reluctantly) Push Us into the Bull Camp

By Timm Schneider

With natural gas hovering around 2025 lows, we have put on a small long position with an average mark at ~$2.98 (NG1; May). The contract expires on April 28th so we will be looking to…

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April 23, 2025

DVN: ‘So it Took a Global Tariff War…

By Timm Schneider

…for DVN to put out a press release with actions they should have been doing all along?!’ Was one of the investor responses we received. Others must have liked what they read, as DVN was…

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April 23, 2025

What Did We Learn (So Far) From Q1 Earnings? KMI/ LBRT/ HAL in Context…

By Timm Schneider

Really two key takes: 1) It’s good to have a large portion of your business anchored in a ‘demand-pull’ model (KMI) vs. ‘supply-push’ (LBRT/ HAL); and 2) we love our non-traditional business model at The…

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April 20, 2025

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending March 20th

By Timm Schneider

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are…

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April 18, 2025

Highlighting Client Discussions/ Topics from Our NYC Meetings this Week

By Timm Schneider

In addition to our latest note (Discussions post ‘Liberation Day’ are all over the place) we are sharing with you some of the client questions/ discussions that popped up in our NYC trip this week….

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April 14, 2025

Natural Gas: Production (Incredibly) Resilient… So Far; Positive Select Midstream – But Will it Matter For Upcoming Earnings?

By Timm Schneider

It’s been a while since we published our latest thoughts on our favorite commodity – domestic Natural gas – thx to some Liberation Day equity market volatility. But back to the drawing board we go……

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April 13, 2025

Discussions post ‘Liberation Day’ are all over the place

By Timm Schneider

The chatter post ‘Liberation Day’ (April 2nd) has been active – but tellingly subdued. Despite the buzz (if that is the correct nomenclature), phones *aren’t* ringing off the hook. That’s a signal we’ve seen before:…

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April 13, 2025

Survey Portfolio: Top Weighted Long Returns (EXE/ LNG/ EQT/ DUK & PPL) and Shorts (HP/ OKE/ OXY/ PBF/ BRY) Drive Outperformance since Inception on November 14th 2024

By Timm Schneider

Please see the detailed note within for which stocks survey takers (Read On) have gotten right, and which ones have been duds. Recall On November 14th we went live with the ‘Survey Portfolio.’ This is a…

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April 13, 2025

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending March 13th

By Timm Schneider

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are…

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April 11, 2025

Taking a Closer Look at Implied Probabilities for the Next Three Fed Meetings

By Timm Schneider

We will have a more detailed summary on our recent client discussions out over the weekend (since ‘Liberation Day’), but thought it would be interesting to take a look at current implied probabilities for Fed…

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April 10, 2025

OKLO/ CQP/ BKV/ NFE/ BP/ AEP/ NOVA/ PAGP/ ETR/ SDRL…

By Timm Schneider

…screen as more ‘disliked’ equities as of 4-10-2025 compared to our last publication in mid-March per our real-time active shares on loan (short interest) utilization analysis… Interested in your thoughts! Inside, we provide real-time data…

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April 8, 2025

Texas Energy Patch Activity Robust in March; Eagle Ford (?!) Fires on All Cylinders; But Permit Counts Imply Impending Slow-Down…

By Timm Schneider

Within, we provide our thoughts on The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) most recent monthly ‘Summary of Drilling Permits, Completions and Plugging Reports Processed’ for the month of March 2025. ***Happy to chat on specific stock takes…

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