An “update on progress towards net debt target”-titled announcement from BP (BP.), which includes a claim of “earlier than anticipated delivery of disposal proceeds combined with very strong business performance during the first quarter”. This sounds good...
Hello, Share Searchers. When this magnificent website became the first to predict that oil prices would slump into negative territory, I choked on my cornflakes. After all, my biggest holdings are in BP (BP.) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA). And scarily Shareprophets turned out to be dead right - for a brief period you couldn’t give oil away.
Previously updating on BP (BP.), in October we concluded with the shares currently down to below 200p (they were above 500p early this year) and yielding around 8%, we continue to see long-term recovery and income value from here. Therefore, still a long-term Income buy. They’re currently still above 250p on the back of fourth quarter 2020 results but they are still cheap.
Hello, Shares Graders. After a grim week on the stock markets, let’s not forget it’s the future that counts. And after this current correction, which the City blames on covid fears, even though new vaccines will trounce them, the outlook for shares has probably never been so promising. But we still need to be aware of an important trend that will eventually cause many shares to go over a cliff.
BP (BP.) has announced its Q3 results emphasising “Performance improving despite difficult environment”...
BP (BP.) is apparently going to become a tree hugging “green” Integrated Energy Company. It would appear to me that this is driven by the sole aim of being “politically” correct. I do not accept the premise upon which the new company strategy is based or far more importantly the detail of the implementation. So is Mr Looney true to his name or an enlightened visionary?
BP (BP.) has announced second quarter and half-year results including “underlying replacement cost loss for the quarter was $6.7 billion, compared with a profit of $2.8 billion for the same period a year earlier… A dividend of 5.25 cents per share was announced for the quarter, compared to 10.5 cents per share for the previous quarter” ($2.1 billion)… and the shares have responded higher to nearer 300p...
Shares in BP (BP.) closed the prior week heading down towards 300p but are currently back above 310p, particularly following an “agrees to sell petrochemicals business to INEOS” announcement...
A “revises price assumptions; expects charges at 2Q” announcement from BP (BP.), including February-commenced CEO Bernard Looney stating “in February we set out to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner… we have been reviewing our price assumptions over a longer horizon. That work has been informed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which increasingly looks as if it will have an enduring economic impact”. Loony or very clever?...
I must be super grumpy today because I was actually unhappy that BP (BP.) did not cut its dividend today. I do not have a position so its dividend largesse or not is directly kind of irrelevant to me, but indirectly its continued effort to pour income down the mouth of its loyal shareholder base will have been welcomed by every single pension fund of size out there – and no doubt a decent slug of ShareProphets readers. My problem though is that it just tells me that it is an oil integrated supertanker still in search of a strategy...
A market and COVID-19 response update from BP (BP.) – and the shares 3% lower at 333.7p on the back of it…
Hello, Share Toasters. Have you seen the price of oil now? It’s the highest it’s been for six months. And better than the big spike when terrorists bombed the Saudi oil operation. That suggests rising demand. And, in fact, there’s no sign of emerging countries decreasing their need for the ebony nectar.
BP (BP.) has announced a third quarter underlying replacement cost profit of $2.3 billion, compared to $3.8 billion a year earlier, though also a maintained $0.1025 quarterly dividend per share and that it’s “making strong progress with our divestment plans and building exciting new opportunities in fast-growing downstream markets in Asia”…
Hello Share Mongers. A company which has seen a 12% drop in its share price of late is BP (BP.). I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this setback has come at the same time as big publicity created by the newsworthy protests of Extinction Rebellion. This fast-growing lobby is against the black stuff being sold by big oilers like BP...
Hello, Share Turners. My conscience has nagged me lately. It’s over the ethical nature of my shares. I described myself as a socially responsible investor. But am I really? As previously pointed out on this delicious website, my holding in Diageo (DGE) the drinks firm would raise questions with some.
I guess I should offer my congratulations to BP (BP,) chief executive Bob Dudley who next February will retire from the position (and the company) after the thick end of a decade in charge. Some of the plaudits I read about him being the man 'who saved' BP after the Gulf of Mexico debacle are a touch wide of the mark, but certainly he was a force for stability and continuation. BP shareholders loving up their edged up dividend over the last five years will no doubt agree.
