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Why We’re Staying Away from KLX Energy Services for Now

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Image Source: KLX Energy Services By Callum Turcan KLX Energy Services Holdings Inc (KLXE) is the product of a major corporate restructuring, as the oilfield services side of KLX was spun-off to shareholders while the aerospace business was acquired outright by Boeing Company (BA) in an all-cash deal worth $4.25 billion (including the assumption of $1.0 billion in debt) last year. Going forward, the new KLX Energy Services is focused on providing well completion, well intervention, and drilling services to America’s upstream oil & gas industry. A key consideration is that as a more focused enterprise, KLX Energy Services should be able to better perform in a tough space to be in right now. Note that the company does not … Read more

Will Texas Tea Hit $75 Per Barrel By Year’s End?

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Image Shown: The performance of the VanEck Vectors Oil Refiners ETF (CRAK) since its launch in August 2015. We’ve witnessed our fair share of fits and starts from energy resource pricing during the past few years, but could the global crude markets finally be rebalancing? Let’s talk about our thoughts on whether the outlook for energy resource pricing is improving in a sustainable way. By Kris Rosemann and Brian Nelson, CFA It may have taken longer than we initially anticipated, but crude oil prices (USO) appear to be on the verge of making a sustained recovery, though we always caution that sentiment can change on a dime, especially in the speculation-heavy commodity price markets. If you recall, we thought the … Read more