Top 5 Oil Stocks To Own Right Now

Top 5 Oil Stocks To Own Right Now: Apache Corporation(APA)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Shauna O'Brien]

  On Wednesday, oil and gas company Apache Corporation (APA) announced that it has agreed to sell some of its gas producing properties in Canada for $112 million.

  The company will sell its Hatton, St. Lina, Marten Hills, Snipe Lake, Valhalla and a part of its Hawkeye properties. These properties are primarily located in Saskatchewan and Alberta and total approximatly 4,000 operating wells and 1,300 non-operating wells. The average daily production for these locations is about 38 million cubic feet of natural gas and 750 barrels of oil.

  The sales will be made in two separate deals. Both of these deals are expected to close in the fourth quarter.

  Apache shares were mostly flat during pre-market trading Wednesday. The stock is up 12% YTD.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  If you’re an oil explorer, you’re probably trying to avoid offshore right now. It’s expensive to reach, and, with oil still trading below $50, difficult to make profitable. That’s one reason companies have been touting big discoveries and buys onshore–see Apache’s (APA) big announcement from last week for one example. Yet here’s Anadarko Petroleum (APC) spending $2 billion to buy Freeport-McMoRan’s (FCX) Gulf of Mexico assets. What gives? UBS analyst William Featherston and team explain:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Barclays analyst Thomas Driscoll and team see more dividend cuts and equity raises coming for oil & gas stocks like Apache (APA), Devon Energy (DVN),Encana (ECA), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), and Marathon Oil (MRO). They explain why:

• [By Wayne Duggan]

  Bernstein maintains Outperform ratings on the following oil stocks:

  Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cobalt International Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CIE) Cabot Oil & Gas Corporat! ion (NYSE: COG) ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) Devon Energy Corp (NYSE: DVN) EOG Resources Inc (NYSE: EOG) Range Resources Corp. (NYSE: RRC) Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN)

  GMP analyst Bob Bakanauskas went long E&Ps back on February 3. He predicts that the oil market will transition from oversupply to undersupply in 2017. From that point forward, the world will once again require shale production growth.

source from Top Stocks For 2015:http://www.topstocksblog.com/top-5-oil-stocks-to-own-right-now-5.html

Best Financial Stocks For 2017

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Best Financial Stocks For 2017: Potlatch Corporation(PCH)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lisa Levin]

  Here is the list of stocks going ex-dividend on Friday.

  Douglas Dynamics Inc (NYSE: PLOW) - $0.2350 dividend, 2.9183 percent yield Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) - $0.4500 dividend, 2.6758 percent yield PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) - $0.0900 dividend, 1.7078 percent yield Leidos Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) - $0.3200 dividend, 3.0851 percent yield Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP) - $0.6800 dividend, 4.1756 percent yield Hudson Pacific Properties Inc (NYSE: HPP) - $0.2000 dividend, 2.36

Best Financial Stocks For 2017: Brookline Bancorp Inc.(BRKL)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dividends4Life]

  Memberships and Peers: PBCT is a member of the S&P 500 and a member of the Broad Dividend Achievers�� Index. The company's peer group includes: Bank of America Corporation (BAC) with a 0.3% yield, Brookline Bancorp, Inc. (BRKL) with a 3.7% yield and Westfield Financial Inc. (WFD) with a 3.5% yield.

Best Financial Stocks For 2017: Deutsche Bank AG(DB)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Wayne Duggan]

  According to the 1/5 year CDS ratio, the banks that are most concerning to the market at the moment are Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE: DB), Credit Suisse Group AG (ADR) (NYSE: CS), Standard Chartered PLC (which trades on the LON exchange under the ticker "STAN") and Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS).

• [By WWW.THESTREET.COM]

  Today, Deutsche Bank (DB) pretty much signals an all-clear based on that call and says things are indeed getting better. So there are buyers all over the place.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  …global markets continue to stumble around in a tight band, unable to break out or just plain break, it seems. Yesterday we saw a nice rally driven by bullish oil inventories and talk of an OPEC meeting before the meeting next week. That was undone by chatter that the German government was seeking ��discreet talks�� with the U.S. authorities on Deutsche Bank (DB). That��s code for they need to fix that before everyone gets sick, and fixing things means short term pain.

• [By Rupert Hargreaves]

  Even so, thanks to its checkered past, many companies such as Visa� (NYSE: V  ) �and�MasterCard� (NYSE: MA  ) �have been late to the party.�However, astute companies, such as�Deutsche Bank� (NYSE: DB  ) have been active in the market since the mid 1970s.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Just about every bank’s capital plan was given the go ahead, though a few with qualifications. M&T Bank (MTB) , for instance, “met minimum capital requirements on a post-stress basis after submitting an adjusted capital action,” according to the Federal Reserve’s press release, while Morgan Stanley (MS) will be required to “submit a new capital plan by the end of the fourth quarter of 2016 to address certain weaknesses in its capital planning processes.” The Fed “objected” to the plans submitted by�Deutsche Bank (DB) and Banco Santander’s (SAN) US units.

Best Financial Stocks For 2017: Home Federal Bancorp Inc.(HOME)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Sofia Horta e Costa]

  Sanofi fell 2.6 percent after withdrawing a U.S. application for a diabetes drug. Cie. Financiere Richemont (CFR) SA dropped 2.3 percent as revenue missed analysts�� estimates. Vivendi SA advanced 2.7 percent after saying it will begin a formal study to separate its French phone unit from its media businesses. Home Retail Group Plc (HOME) surged 5.4 percent to a two-year high as sales exceeded projections.