Oil Company Stocks

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UPL - Ultra Petroleum has oil and natural gas reserves. Good play if you expect oil to continue its uptrend and also a play on natural gas prices if you think it will be a cold winter this year. PTR - Buffett sold his stake recently (i think) but this is a dual oil/China play if you expect positive uptrends for both Also take a look at oil trust companies. I forget the name, but I had one a few years back, they were selling the oil from existing reserves, they weren't expanding, but there was a steady dividend payment every month which was slowly growing and the price per share rose as well. Not exciting, but it made me money. Lastly, look for companies that are extracting oil unconventionally. With oil rising to $100 and possibly passing that mark, methods of extracting oil that were once too costly are now profitable ventures. An example would be companies that extract oil from oil-soaked sands. What originally lost you money at $75 a barrel is now making you a profit at $100 a barrel. Right now you'll hear a lot of people tell you buy low, sell high. It's a great sound byte and everyone loves to tell you that. What they don't know is what is low and what is high. If oil continues its climb to $250 a barrel in three years, buying now would make a lot of sense. Do your own research and come up with your own conclusions. Oh, and I just remembered, take a look at companies that manufacture drill bits and other production material for oil drilling companies. Max production capacity is always on oil companies' minds so if oil continues its up trend, expect high demand for drilling equipment. Hope that helps and best of luck to you!

looking to see if major corporations trade or buy each other's stocks to hedge against low sales such as tha auto manufacturing companies and the major oil companies

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You bet your a$$ they do! http://www.maxpages.com/astrofsky

I believe a big E nergy discovery will be made soon (alternative energy source) and I want to short some of the oil stocks.

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what you want is the ones with the greatest leverage in profit relative to the price of the commodity. Without doing a lot of calculations [which would be a fee for service activity and thus is prohibited here], I suggest that you look at the ones that are just barely profitable in terms of net income per sales dollar.

I am looking for information on the Merchants and Mechanics Oil Company of Mansfield,Ohio. The company is was incorporated in the state of main. Then stock date is 14 January 1908. Is there a free site I can go to.

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yes its called the internet learn how to spell first before you invest

Since the auto companies own oil stock, that could be the reason for poor fuel economy and if oil companies own auto stock that could be a reason for higher fuel prices, if a conflict of interest exists. Would / should that violate any anti-trust laws? When I see a 4cyl coffin on wheels that gets only 5 more mpg than a full size 6cyl sedan, it raises a flag to me. When I see in the paper, a couple years ago that a customer's car was detuned and modified at a dealership because some test items accidently got out of the manufacturers control and now the vehicle all of a sudden gets the normal MPG,which is lower, it raises a flag to me. When a 4cyl diesel can get almost double the mpg by changing the timing and that is not the factory setting it raises a flag to me. CONFLICT or NO CONFLICT?

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I'm sure they do, and yes, it kind of is, isn't it? Businesses can invest in whatever they like, but it actually makes sense that oil companies would park some of their capital into long-term investments when not invested in their own ventures. When you think about it logically, though, these guys know these industries. They get inside reports about what's happening, they've got an idea about how their personal decisions affect car sales. And, it's not just the refined gasoline, but the polymers in plastics and tires, the fuel for manufacturing, etc. The incentive for auto companies to create more fuel-effecient cars, however seems to be bigger than any oil-industry pressure. There are government mandates that requires they design a certain percentage of their cars sold as fuel effecient. Their competition are designing these cars, and a large segment of society are demanding them now. They've got to pare down their car selection (I spoke with an auto-industry exec at the airport two weeks ago, she was talking about how GM came out with only 40% of their models in 2006, and that they'll be leaner in 2007) in order to streamline operations. This means that they've got to have a strong commitment to fuel-effecient cars. The overall trend for oil usage, however, isn't going to be curbed, even if we were to all drive 50 mpg cars anyway. That's because of the overall growth in demand. Right now, China is so thirsty for fuel, that it's going to be a major factor over the next 10 years. They mostly need it for industrial facilities and end-user products. Lastly, the anti-trust laws are mostly developed for monopolistic activities in the market. So, the oil industry would be controlled that they can't have controlling interest in their vertical markets AND that this controlling interest would be a monopolistic position, but they are FAR from anything the anti-trust laws were designed to regulate. That's not to say that there aren't laws that could be enforced, or that there aren't people who want more laws to slow things down that way, but I'd say the general economic trends would show that this industry relationship is a small piece of the larger puzzle.