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October 27, 2024

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending October 27th 2024

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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October 24, 2024

Two Things: 1) Driving to Baltimore Tomorrow AM for Meetings (Lucky Me; Read On); and 2) Some Thematic Thoughts out of Earnings…

By Timm Schneider

…Just kidding, people from Baltimore! Harbor East isn’t bad… also I should not be talking… I live outside of Philadelphia in the sticks. So we will be on our way to Baltimore tomorrow am for…

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October 24, 2024

Model Portfolio: Effective Immediately, We Are Closing our RRC Short Position (7% Weight) For a Total Loss of 1.8% Since Inception

By Timm Schneider

We are not replacing the short position at this time. RRC was one of our bigger weights in the short book at ~7%. RRC reported earnings earlier in the week. Please reach out if you…

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October 23, 2024

Your Weekly Energy & Utility Sentiment Gauge Tracking Changes in Real Time Short Interest (10-23-2024)

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you real-time 1) Current Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 2) W-W % Changes in Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 3) Borrow; and 4) Changes in 4-week moving average shares-on-loan utilization for ~200 publicly traded corporates…

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October 23, 2024

Natural Gas: Pressing the Front Month (Nov-24) Short to the Max. Long Feb-24

By Timm Schneider

Post MTDR/ NBR/ RRC results we are pressing front end of the curve (Nov 24) short to the max. We are still long Feb-25.  We may close the front month short depending on what happens…

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October 22, 2024

Peak Resources (PRB; IPO) Set to Price Later This Week. Happy To Chat

By Timm Schneider

And… another Energy IPO on deck. Happy to chat on this one. Set to price later this week. They have a publicly available roadshow video. Let me know if you would like to see the…

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October 20, 2024

Your Key Energy & Utility News for the Week Ending October 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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October 19, 2024

KMI/ LBRT/ SLB Conference Calls Lead Us to Open a new Natural Gas Spread Trade: A Few Key Sector Takes. We Need a ‘Gassy’ Long…

By Timm Schneider

Last week, Q3 earnings season kicked off. Since we don’t just focus on one Energy sub-sector (like our Sell-Side counterparts) we believe we have a unique angle in identifying both ongoing and developing themes in…

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October 18, 2024

Model Portfolio Pares ~100Bps w/w as Relative Energy Overweight Cuts into Gains; Nat Gas E&P & Driller Shorts, TLN Long, Provide Some Relief; We (Fortunately) Closed our TRP Short This Week

By Timm Schneider

Most discussed stocks and topics this week (irrespective of Model Portfolio): KMI/ LBRT/ SLB Read Throughs; What is happening in Natural Gas markets (i.e. how much worse can it get); DVN; COP; RRC; CTRA; EXE; EQT;…

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October 17, 2024

Your Weekly Energy & Utility Sentiment Gauge Tracking Changes in Real Time Short Interest

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you real-time 1) Current Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 2) W-W % Changes in Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 3) Borrow; and 4) Changes in 4-week moving average shares-on-loan utilization for ~200 publicly traded corporates…

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October 16, 2024

Kinder Morgan (KMI; N/R): Break-Up to Unlock Value…

By Timm Schneider

…is one of the more interesting discussions from today’s earnings call. And was shut down in quick order by management. We don’t believe KMI breaks up. However, the call just made us think about a…

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October 15, 2024

Is Growth Cool Again Vs. Simply Returning Cash to Shareholders? Topical Issues into Q3 Earnings Season and Beyond. Closing our (Disappointing) TRP Short…

By Timm Schneider

Within we provide a collection of thoughts around some of the more topical issues we believe will push to the fore in the upcoming Q3 earnings season. Ping us for some tactical trade ideas specifically…

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October 14, 2024

Ahead of the Earnings Calls: Taking a Closer Look at y/y Texas Activity Levels for Q3’24 (Wells Drilled/ Oil & Gas Completions/ Permits by Well Type)

By Timm Schneider

Within we provide a detailed breakout of Upstream activity levels in Texas for Q3’24 compared to Q3’23. Our analysis is based on publicly available data from the Railroad Commission of Texas. We break this data…

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October 13, 2024

Your Energy & Utility News Summary for the Week Ending October 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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October 13, 2024

Your Energy & Utility News Summary for the Week Ending October 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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