Top Independents Operators Oil Stocks to Buy in 2019

John: Shareholder activism has come to SU, and this should help the valuation. Likes oil more than nat gas, as oil is in a structural shortage. Oil players are extremely cheap, with 30% cashflow yields, 2x operating cashflow. Perhaps not a hold for the next 5-10 years, but a good rental.

(A Top Pick Aug 30/21, Up 69%) Very well managed, offering broad exposure to Canadian oil. Energy has been under-invested since 2015. Earnings should be $11 EPS. This stock can be well over $100. They paid down their debt, so they could buyback shares. Will raise their dividends. This will continue to do well if…

Good development and exploration opportunities. Taking free cashflow and paying down debt, which will continue till 2023. Exploration gives them opportunity to grow volumes. Price of oil has allowed it to return shareholder value. Insiders are major shareholders. No dividend. (Analysts’ price target is $2.88)

(A Top Pick May 28/21, Up 287%) Drilling oil wells that payback in weeks (1.5 years is average). Largest shareholder of the company. Would have made to top pick, but already have picked company last time. Company aggressively paying down debt. Trading at 2x cash flow and 35% free cash flow yield. Expecting company to…

HSE-T + CVE-T: Stay after the merger? He does not own either one. He understands the merger makes sense. There are a lot of cost savings that can be found. He prefers CNQ-T, PXT-T and one of his Top Picks today. He prefers these to HSE-T. If the sector bounces back you could get an…

(A Top Pick Mar 15/22, Up 42.6%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly Our PAST TOP PICK with TOU triggered its stop at $69.50. To remain disciplined, we recommend covering the position at this time. This will result in a net investment gain of 58%, when combined with previous buy recommendations.

Great company that is well run, and is returning capital to shareholders. Was 2nd largest shareholder after Murray Edwards. Seeing more opportunity in other energy companies. Company trading a 3x cash flow. Expecting 4x multiple on share price(15% upside).

John: 40% free cashflow yield. Cheap. Still makes money if oil goes down to $50.

Among the 10 top performers on the S&P of 2021 #9, up 123%. It's made many acquisition and returned capital to shareholders. It has a $35 breakeven price with tremendous production growth of 41%. It's cutting back on drilling and exploration which pleases Wall St.. It's likely to repeat this gain in 2022.

Oil price advances is going to help the advances of oil stocks. Chinese economy is likely to grow at an 8/8.5% for the next decade on a compound basis. Good opportunities.

The best valuation opportunities are in Canada, he thinks. He would sell WPX for the tax loss and buy Parsley instead, who has better exposure to Canada.

Terrific. Pays a yield of 13%. Will make a ton of money as the hedge funds get run out of commodity stocks. This will make money even if oil is at $80.

(A Top Pick May 17/22, Down 10.1%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly Our PAST TOP PICK with EOG has triggered its stop at $115. To remain disciplined, we recommend covering the position at this time.

This all depends on what oil prices are going to do. $50 oil kind of keeps them going, but the costs are much higher than they are getting at the end of the day.

Terrific run on the back of energy rebound. Fairly valued. Historically, leverage up the balance sheet during good times, and then cut dividends and restructure during bad. He prefers Canadian mid-streams, like PPL or GEI, both of which are focused on cashflow. Both are approaching fair value, but are good candidates if your quest is…

(A Top Pick April 2/14. Down 18.73%.) His job it is to watch for change and as he sees change, be able to reposition portfolios as required. Last summer, the US$ started to blast off, which happened at the same time that energy prices started to roll over. He got stopped out of virtually all…

options Energy continues to see action. This is trading at $8, buying 20,000 of the May 7 calls in order to get more leverage. They will move as the stock moves up. He remains very overweight energy.

(A Top Pick April 18/16. Down 8.31%.) He sold this and got about 5.5% from it.

Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly DVN continues to be upgraded by several analysts. It has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and it is backed by a payout ratio under 70% of next years projected earnings. The dividend has a fixed and floating component, so the yield may not remain this high, so it…

Energy company - oil and gas producer. He is looking for companies that are good quality, selling off and with volume picking up as it turns, which this is. He is already making money on it. Stop is $47.

This was the poster child for the US growth machine. But now they are in one of the worst places. Cut cap X program and will likely have to cut it again. Prefers Canadian oil stocks. Thinks there will still be revisions to CLR-N’s cash flow.

(Top Pick March 10/14, Down 14.12%) They are a lower cost operator. He sold this a couple of months after recommending it. Their challenge has been that their industry has been wildly successful in getting production growth and now there is a severe shortage of pipelines in the region so the price they sell for…

A name in transition. Used to be viewed as a leveraged way to play oil because they had financial leverage and were in the US Bakken play, which is still exceptional economics in a lot of their acreage. In the fall, they did a massively diluted share offering to purchase acreage in the Permian, paying…

Probably a name he would hold or avoid, simply because it is so highly levered. A good company. It has some good assets. If you see a sustained bull market in energy, this could be fairly attractive. However he doesn’t think we are going to have a bull market in energy right now, so this…

An oil company that's becoming a lot more eco-friendly. He's blown away by their carbon capture. It's up 170% YTD, but he'd still buy it.

Tremendously high profile in the US and has held up relatively better than our Canadian oil stocks. Good properties and good reserve life. Good price. Really a question of what you think is going to happen on commodity prices.