2. $ARX is getting a lot of hate for the hedging losses, and I understand that – we all spend everyday looking at our screens and seeing how much money is to be made in this commodity climate.
3. But that misses both the point of an E&P company, and the point of hedging.
Upside is great but you need to be able to generate returns on the capital you employ and hedging can enable you to secure those returns. $ARX
1.OK, after a day of flights and meetings for yours truly, I have thoughts on $CNQ.
2.This Q was sort of underwhelming, not bad but also not the epic blowout like $TOU had, just a solid, expected Q. $CNQ
3.On to their deck, loved to see them lightly engaging with the Elliott $SU drama by explaining why they are worth a premium – it is hard to disagree – best in class reserves, a solid asset base across commodities $CNQ #LongLifeLowDecline
$TOU is in cash flow beast mode - their HSE consultants must be scares of all back injury lawsuits coming in from shareholder hurting themselves lugging this cash around.
Only 56% of Americans can name all 3 branches so it seems unlikely that Judicial reform is really going to be a winning political issue when people are struggling to, you know, heat they home and put food on the table.
Also don't forget Acquiescence bias in polling on subjects like this - some person calls you up and askes you a bunch of questions about nuanced components of a systems you don't interact with - chances are you say "sure, that sounds good"
I rag on them a lot for this *history* as a capital incinerator.
But honestly, they are doing the best they can, that financing was expensive AF though but if they could not find anything better...
Both $ATH and $MEG are still working through issues that were built into the companies from the beginning - they were designed for a world of boundless opportunity - and that world quickly changed.
Like this map of from $MEG and... well all of $ATH's land at IPO are hilarious at this point - focus are core operations rule the day. Optionality matters but the idea that sub 100k bbld companies should have many ops has been destroyed.