Chevron (NYSE: CVX) is like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) in that it is a “Big Oil” company that has not spun off units like so many others. As a result, Chevron, again like ExxonMobil, has not fallen in recent stock market action like so many other energy companies. Chevron is down for the last week, month, […]

Like many other major oil stocks, ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is down for the last week, month, quarter and six months of market action. For the last 52 weeks, ConocoPhillips has dropped, too (chart below). Projections are that ConocoPhillips and other oil and natural gas stocks will continue to fall.  The exchange traded fund for oil, […]

ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), the world’s largest oil and natural gas company, is falling in price at the same time that the exchanged traded funds for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO), and natural gas, United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), are falling. That is an unusual situation that long term investors should use to their […]

Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) is Big Oil and a Warren Buffett holding, which is a bullish combination. Along with ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), Suncor Energy is an oil and natural gas holding of legendary investor Warren Buffett.  There is much about Suncor Energy that is superior to ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.  That is […]

This bull market has favored ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Kraft (NASDAQ: KRFT), and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), among others.  What has taken the price up even higher than the liquidity of the bull market has been the robust dividend yield of each.  In a low interest rate environment, stocks with high dividend yields such as ConocoPhillips, Kraft, […]

There is a reason that legendary investor Warren Buffett owns shares of major oil firms such as ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), and Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) (chart  below), among others. That was shown in the strong employment numbers just released by the United States Department of Labor. The United States just added 288,000 […]

The hostilities in Iraq have driven up the price of oil and natural gas securities.  The exchange traded funds for oil, United States Oil (NYSE: USO), and natural gas, United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), are both up in recent market action.  So are stocks in the industry such as ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Chesapeake […]

Even though growth in China, the world’s largest energy user, is down, the share prices for oil stocks is up.  ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), the world’s biggest, has risen by more than 5 percent for the last week of market action.  Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B), the second largest, has jumped nearly 8 percent for that […]

Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine has oil and natural prices rising in the short term.  In the long term, it will be from increasing global economic demand due to growth around the world.  For investors, there are a wide range of selections in the oil and natural gas industry from companies of all sizes such […]

There are have been many other articles on this site about the positive aspects of investing in Big Oil stocks such as Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), and and Sasol Ltd (NYSE: SSL).  A major reason for long term investing in these oil and natural gas companies is the dividend income.  Here […]