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Most E&Ps Undervalued After Oil Price Slump; Our Top Picks Are Diamondback, Pioneer, and Laredo

West Texas Intermediate crude oil has fallen from over $65 a barrel in late April to about $54/bbl today, a hair below our midcycle forecast of $55/bbl. The slump has dragged most exploration and production stocks down with it, with 22 of the 23 names we cover now trading below our fair value estimates. The median and mean discounts are 12% and 16%, respectively. We see more upside than that for industry cost leaders like Diamondback Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources, which are better positio...
Underlying
Laredo Petroleum Inc.

Laredo Petroleum is an independent energy company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties, and midstream and marketing services, primarily in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The Permian Basin is comprised of several distinct geological provinces, including the Midland Basin to the east, the Delaware Basin to the west and the Central Platform in the middle. The company's primary development and production fairway is located on the east side of the Midland Basin, 35 miles east of Midland, TX. The company's acreage is contiguous in the neighboring Texas counties of Howard, Glasscock, Reagan, Sterling and Irion.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Dave Meats

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