Energy: Big Oil Earnings – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Oil earnings for 2017 were a mixed bag with U.S. giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil lagging their peers. We discuss the themes of the earnings season and the shareholder returns fever that has gripped the industry as big oil competes for investors dollars.
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| 0:19.0 | welcome to industry focus the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we're talking Energy and Industrials. |
| 0:28.0 | It's Thursday the 15th of February and we're going to be discussing big oil earnings. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm your host Sarah Priesley and joining me in the studio is my And we're going to be discussing big oil earnings. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm your host Sarah Priesley and joining me in the studio is Motley for Canada, |
| 0:35.8 | premium analyst, an all-round nice guy, Tiller. |
| 0:39.5 | Hopefully I don't finish last. |
| 0:41.3 | How are you doing today? I'm great, How are you? I'm good. We're finally having some |
| 0:45.8 | warmer weather. Yeah right I know. It's teasing us. Yeah. It's teasing us. Yeah. |
| 0:49.7 | It's teasing us. So the start of February sort of a rash of reporting from the world's largest oil companies |
| 0:56.0 | and today we're going to be reviewing them the good the bad and the ugly to provide |
| 1:00.6 | some context it's important to remember that expectations were super high going into this because of the riders in crude oil prices that we saw last year, |
| 1:09.0 | which did help generally, but we saw rising profits upstream, but narrowing refining margins generally. |
| 1:14.8 | Bumper year for cash flow. |
| 1:16.8 | Cash flow was its highest level since before the slump and helped by drastic cost |
| 1:21.0 | cutting that we've seen universally. |
| 1:24.8 | And because of all of this, |
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