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Occidental Petroleum’s 4Q 2014 earnings: Not all bad news (Part 5 of 5) (Continued from Part 4) OXY’s stock performance
Following Occidental Petroleum’s (OXY) 4Q 2014 earnings, its stock slightly jumped, by 2%. This is thanks to its beating earnings, its comfortable cash position, and its lower expenditures.
In the graph above, we compare Occidental’s stock returns from September 2014 to present with its peers’. We note that all the stocks started declining in September, when oil prices started falling. Occidental, in particular, has had similar returns to ConocoPhillips (COP) as well as the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE).
Apache (APA) and Anadarko Petroleum (APC) have underperformed both the XLE and Occidental. All oil stocks continue to offer negative returns.
The last quarter was particularly rough on energy companies. But it wasn’t all bad news for Occidental. The company has a comfortable cash position, and its debt-to-capitalization ratio was a comfortable 19%. With modest debt and robust cash levels, the company can leverage its balance sheet to buy weaker assets for cheap if the energy market continues to nosedive. Concurrently, Occidental can also buy back shares, given that prices have declined significantly compared to the previous year.
However, if oil prices don’t recover—given the company’s plans to increase its production—they could hurt the company’s cash flows.
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Occidental Petroleum is a oil producing company based in United states of america. Occidental Petroleum is listed in United States of America. Its market capitalisation is US$ 51.8 billions as of today (€ 48.4 billions). Its stock quote reached its highest recent level on March 16, 2012 at US$ 99.99, and its lowest recent point on October 16, 2020 at US$ 10.00. Occidental Petroleum has 764 580 032 shares outstanding. |