Morningstar | WPX Wells Consistently Yield Above-Average Initial Rates
We are nudging our fair value to $11 after taking a second look at WPX's first-quarter financial and operating results. The increase was mainly driven by incorporating above-average initial production rates that the firm consistently delivers in both the Delaware and Bakken shale plays. As we have previously commented, the firm's acreage is ideally located in the "sweet spot" of both plays, and its technical team has been able to make the most of this advantage.As a reminder, the firm delivered production of 155 mboe/d in the period, which was 1% lower sequentially and 51% higher year over year. This was a hair above our forecast of 154 mboe/d (and management noted that first quarter oil volumes would have been 1.4 mbbl/d higher if not for severe winter storms causing power outages in the Delaware Basin). Likewise, the firm’s financial results were as expected, with adjusted EBITDA and adjusted earnings per share coming in at $312 million and $0.05, respectively (consensus estimates were $317 million and $0.04). There was no change to the 2019 capital budget of $1.1 billion-$1.3 billion, and management still expects firmwide production to average 149-161 mboe/d this year. We currently expect full-year volumes to come in at the high end of this range.
WPX Energy is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company engaged in the exploitation and development of long-life unconventional properties. The company is focused on exploiting, developing and growing its oil positions in the Delaware Basin (a subset of the Permian Basin) in Texas and New Mexico and the Williston Basin in North Dakota.
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