Our Research


October 4, 2024

Model Portfolio: Removing our 7% SWN Short for a Total Return of Negative 2.6%

By Timm Schneider

Following SWN’s acquisition by CHK. The combined company is now trading under symbol EXE. We are not replacing the SWN short position at this time pending additional analysis. The weight has moved to cash. SWN…

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September 29, 2024

Weekend Reading: Your News for the Week Ending September 29th

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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September 28, 2024

Model Portfolio Pares ~300Bps as both Shorts & Longs Underperform (!) Is it Time to Punt Upstream & OFS or (Selectively) Double-Down?! (we will be NYC all of next week meeting w/ clients)

By Timm Schneider

Guess the survey takers were correct back in Mid-July when they voted that energy sector performance into 2H’24 was simply a de-facto call on 1) oil price; and 2) fund flows: https://theschneidercapitalgroup.com/2024/07/23/sadly-our-proprietary-2h24-outlook-survey-shows-energy-sector-performance-thru-year-end-is-simply-a-de-facto-call-on-1-oil-prices-and-2-fund-flows-capital-allocation-decisions-by-firms-dont-mat/ Our utility sector…

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September 27, 2024

Quantifying Natural Gas Demand Destruction on the Heels of Hurricane Helene

By Timm Schneider

First off, if you live in the affected areas of the Hurricane, our thoughts are with you and we hope you and yours are staying safe. Within, we use real time power outage trackers for…

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September 25, 2024

BKV IPO Reprices Lower at $18p/s vs. Initial $19 – $21p/s Range; Where Would We Buy and Where Would We Short?! See Within

By Timm Schneider

Shares of BKV priced after the close today at $18. This is 10% below the mid-point of the initial range of $19 – $21 and in-line with our expectation of both 1) a re-price lower;…

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September 25, 2024

***NEW FORMAT w/ Added Detail: Proprietary Short Interest Analysis Implies Bearish Weekly Shift on E&P; Integrateds/ Majors/ Refiners See Most Bullish Shift…

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you real-time 1) Current Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; and 2) W-W % Changes in Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization for ~200 publicly traded corporates across 1) Midstream & Energy Infrastructure; 2) Clean Tech &…

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September 25, 2024

Let’s Play Some BKV ‘IPO Pricing Bingo’… We Still Believe This Prices Below the Initial Range, But Gets Done

By Timm Schneider

Earlier this week, we shared with our clients our expected valuation range (~$18-ish per share) for shares of BKV, which are set to price today, Wednesday 9-25-2024. This compares to an initial pricing range of…

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September 24, 2024

Natural Gas: 48Bcf Injection Est; Most Questions Focused on Q4 Production Progression; Plaquamines Timing on Demand Side

By Timm Schneider

Full Details and Updated Storage Balances as well as our current positioning within. Interested in your thoughts. Timm At the time of this writing we have a Natural Gas spread trade on: 1) Long Nov-24…

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September 24, 2024

We’ve Had a Bunch of CCUS Discussions Recently…

By Timm Schneider

…So Which Clean Tech/ Renewables Sub-Sectors are Most *Overhyped* and *Underhyped?* A little blast from the past from our 2H’24 Outlook Survey: Sadly, Our Proprietary 2H’24 Outlook Survey Shows Energy Sector Performance Thru Year-End is…

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September 23, 2024

Feedback to Our Earlier BKV IPO Note (One of Our Most Read Pieces of the Month Already)

By Timm Schneider

Within we provide some feedback to our initial BKV IPO note from earlier today. Link to original publication: We Are Passing on the Expected BKV IPO at the Suggested $19 – $21 per share Range…

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September 23, 2024

We Are Passing on the Expected BKV IPO at the Suggested $19 – $21 per share Range

By Timm Schneider

Full Details within. Please let us know if you have any questions or want to chat. Link to BKV SEC filings: SEC Database (All BKV Filings) source: Company Presentation Timm Thesis: BKV offers an interesting…

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September 22, 2024

Weekend Reading: Your News for the Week Ending September 22nd

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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September 21, 2024

Model Portfolio Grinds out ~230bps of Total Return with TLN (Long) and NFE (Short) Posting the Largest Weekly Gains

By Timm Schneider

Most discussed stocks and topics this week (irrespective of Model Portfolio): Natural Gas Macro; Positioning into 2H’24/ easing cycle; CEG; TLN; VST; ET; EQT; RRC; AR; BKV; LNG; COP; NEE; NEP Model Portfolio Total Relative Return…

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September 19, 2024

Natural Gas: For Today, We Estimate an Injection Range of 45 – 55Bcf (Bullish vs. Consensus & 5-Year Avg)…

By Timm Schneider

…which is why we (temporarily) closed our Jan-25 short position pre-market, ahead of the 10:30AM ET release. To be sure, we fundamentally believe winter 24/25 contracts remain broadly overvalued, but a bullish injection would likely…

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September 18, 2024

Fireside Chat w/ EQT CEO Toby Rice and CFO Jeremy Knopp Reinforces Our ‘V^2 > P’ Thesis…

By Timm Schneider

…with V^2 > P, of course, being the formulaic representation of Our 1) Volume; and 2) Volatility over 3) (Commodity) Price Thesis. At a high level, this equates to a sub-sector preference of 1) Midstream…

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