Oil is the hottest sector, and Wall Street analysts see upside of up to 48% for favored stocks

Energy is the best-performing stock-market sector this year. Given today’s strong economic growth and inflation, many believe oil prices could remain at current levels for years or maybe even move hig...

Exxon Stock Has Surged. A Big Investor Sold $120 Million of Shares.

Text size Exxon Mobil shares have surged with the rise in oil prices. Director Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital Partners recently sold $120 million of the energy giant’s stock. Spencer Platt/Getty Image...

Ex-Div Reminder For Exxon Mobil

On 2/9/22, Exxon Mobil will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.88, payable on 3/10/22. As a percentage of XOM’s recent stock price of $80.95, this dividend works out to approxim...

How To Find Inflation-Protected Payouts For 40% Per Year

Newspaper headline “Oil prices jump” getty As the stock market returns to Planet Earth, we contrarians will have an opportunity to cherry pick some bargains. This is a good thing for us in...

Exxon (XOM) earnings Q4 2021

Exxon Mobil’s revenue jumped more than 80% year over year during the fourth quarter amid a rebound in oil and gas prices, the company said Tuesday. With Exxon now in a stronger financial positio...

Exxon Remakes Corporate Structure Ahead of Tuesday Earnings

Text size Exxon Mobil is moving its headquarters. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Exxon Mobil is remaking its corporate structure, elevating its low-carbon operations to its own division, and even moving i...

Opinion: AT&T and 4 more unloved dividend stocks to buy in a ‘risk-off’ era

With stocks off to one of their worst starts to the year since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it’s no longer crazy to talk about a sustained period of market volatility or a prolonged “risk off” envi...

What to Look for from XOM

Key Takeaways Analysts estimate adjusted EPS of $1.95 vs. $0.03 in Q4 FY 2020. The upstream segment is expected to post its fourth straight quarter of net income. Revenue is expected to nearly double ...

‘We Were Wrong’ About Exxon’s Prospects, Analyst Says

Text size Scott Olson/Getty Images A former bear on Exxon Mobil has changed his tune, and acknowledged that he underestimated the company’s comeback last year. RBC Capital Markets analyst Biraj Borkha...

One of the World’s Dirtiest Oil Patches Is Pumping More Than Ever

TORONTO—Major oil companies, under pressure from investors and environmentalists, are fleeing Canada’s oil sands, the fourth-largest oil reserve in the world and by some measures one of the most envir...

The Hottest ETF Sectors for Investors to Bet On in 2022

Many investors are bracing for a more-volatile stock market this year as interest rates, inflation, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, oil and supply-chain bottlenecks continue to cause uncertainty....

Exxon Could Go Even Bigger on Its Dividend

Text size David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Oil companies used to compete on how much crude they could produce. Now they’re competing on how much cash they can send back to investors. That dynamic could pay...

23 dividend stocks that can pass this strict quality screen

Stocks are expensive. You’ve probably been hearing that for years, and based on traditional price-to-earnings ratios it’s true. If you invest now in a broad index, such as the benchmark S&P 500 SP...

Tesla, Novavax, Exxon Mobil: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today

Updated Jan. 3, 2022 7:22 am ET Stock futures are rising ahead of the first trading session of the new year. Here’s what we’re watching in Monday’s action: Tesla TSLA -1.27% shares jumped 7.6% ahead o...

Royal Dutch Shell Stock Is One of Barron’s Top Picks for 2022

Text size Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images This article is an excerpt from Barron’s 10 favorite stocks for 2022. To see the full list, click here. Energy supplies could be tight and prices high for years....