RE:Market MoversCVE "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry" has to be the easiest $50B E&P to analyse:
1) Upstream: bang up job.
2) Offshore: makes money
3) Downstream: no profit, lots of capex. Also makes you wonder about transfer pricing.
4) all free cashflow to shareholders (after downstream).
Management actually has only 1 job right now: get rid of 3). Unfortunately, they've been doing the opposite.
I feel this is a poorly managed company but tremendously undervalued at the same time.