Return of Capital – Oil & Gas 360

Analysis-US refiners reward shareholders with big returns despite softer Q1 profits

May 20, 2024

U.S. News NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major U.S. fuel makers returned billions in capital to shareholders in the first quarter and boosted share repurchase programs, even as refining margins softened from recent records and utilization rates fell. Three of the biggest U.S. independent oil refiners – Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Valero Energy – earned combined adjusted profits of $2.93

BP boosts share buybacks as earnings exceed estimates

February 6, 2024

Oil Price BP (NYSE: BP) is accelerating share buybacks as it looks to return more cash to shareholders after posting Q4 and full-year 2023 earnings above expectations. BP reported on Tuesday an underlying replacement cost profit – the closest metric to net profit –of $3.0 billion for the fourth quarter, compared with $3.3 billion for the previous quarter. The earnings beat analyst

TotalEnergies promises more distributions, buybacks as oil prices soar

September 27, 2023

Oil Price As oil prices soar and investors wait for signs that oil company stocks will start to catch up, French TotalEnergies has announced plans to boost production and shareholder distributions, lifting its stock price by almost a percentage point in morning trading. TotalEnergies said it planned to return some 44% of its operations cash flow to shareholders in 2023,

Baytex to acquire Eagle Ford operator Ranger Oil, accelerates shareholder returns and introduces a dividend with enhanced free cash flow

February 28, 2023

BOE Report Calgary, Alberta – Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX: BTE) (NYSE: BTE) (“Baytex”, the “Company” or “we”) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire Ranger Oil Corporation (NASDAQ: ROCC) (“Ranger”), a pure play Eagle Ford company (the “Acquisition”). The total consideration to be paid by Baytex, including assumption of net debt, is approximately US$2.5 billion

Big oil is not dancing to government tunes. Period.

November 7, 2022

Oil Price Several days ago, President Biden made a media splash when he threatened oil companies with windfall taxes and “other restrictions” if they don’t stop returning cash to shareholders and start investing this cash in more oil production. The industry, via the American Petroleum Institute, responded with yet another reiteration of the fact that the oil market is

BP boosts buybacks as Q3 profit doubles to $8.2 billion

November 1, 2022

Oil Price BP (NYSE: BP) announced a further $2.5 billion share buyback after more than doubling its Q3 profit from a year earlier, thanks to what it described as an “exceptional” gas marketing and trading result and higher gas realizations. BP joined other international oil and gas majors in reporting very strong earnings after it reported on Tuesday an underlying replacement cost

U.S. majors Exxon, Chevron post blowout earnings, ramp up buybacks

July 29, 2022

US News The two largest U.S. oil companies, Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp, posted record revenue on Friday, bolstered by surging crude oil and natural gas prices and following similar results for European majors a day earlier. The U.S. pair, along with UK-based Shell and France’s TotalEnergies, combined to earn nearly $51 billion in the most recent quarter, almost

BP boosts buybacks on soaring energy prices after costly Russia exit

May 3, 2022

Yahoo Finance LONDON -BP reported its strongest operational performance in more than a decade on Tuesday on the back of rocketing oil prices that helped it step up share buybacks, even as a $24 billion writedown from exiting Russia led to a record quarterly loss. Shares in the energy firm climbed 2.8% by 1311 GMT in London trading after BP

Shell ends 2021 on high note, hikes dividend and boosts buybacks

February 3, 2022

Finance Yahoo LONDON – Shell again boosted its dividend and share repurchases on Thursday after fourth quarter profits hit their highest in eight years, fuelled by higher oil and gas prices and strong gas trading performance. The strong results cap a dramatic recovery in 2021 for Shell and the oil and gas sector after energy demand and prices collapsed in

Cash-flush shale operators consider raising oil output along with dividends

January 28, 2022

World Oil (Bloomberg) –U.S. shale executives have finally achieved something that eluded the industry for more than a decade: the ability to turn over billions of dollars in dividends to shareholders while at the same time boosting production to tap into surging global oil demand. The question now is just how much the shale explorers will reinvest in fresh drilling.

Exxon, Chevron target billions in share buybacks as cash flow surges

October 29, 2021

World Oil HOUSTON (Bloomberg) –Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. are plowing windfall profits into share buybacks as soaring energy prices boost their cash flow. Exxon will revive repurchases for the first time since 2016. The company said Friday it plans to spend as much as $10 billion on repurchases starting next year. Chevron is considering an expansion of its

Chevron CEO explains why the oil giant’s lower-carbon investments look past wind and solar energy

September 16, 2021

CNBC Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth told CNBC on Wednesday the oil company’s lower-carbon investments focus on areas such as renewable natural gas and hydrogen because it sees significant potential to create shareholder value. “One of the things we’ve chosen not to go into is wind and solar,” Wirth said in a “Mad Money” interview. “These are technologies that are relatively mature.

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