Energy

Short Selling Energy, Oil & Gas Stocks (June 2007)

Stock Tickers: VLO, XOM, CVX, COP, SLB, HAL, OIH, HES, PBR, MRO, BHI, RIG, BJS, WMB, GSF, BP, VLO, WFT, NOV, HES

Higher and higher oil prices got you down?  They definitely don’t do wonder for the people increasing their short selling bets against stocks across the various groups of the Oil & Gas sector.  Here is a list of many key (mostly US-based) stocks spread across the various segments inside the energy patch.  It’s amazing that short selling rises as commodity prices biased upward and oil close to $70.00 per barrel.

Increases in short interest:

Stock (Ticker)                                  JUNE    MAY            Change
Exxon Mobil (XOM)                       49.65M   46.6M         +6.55%
Chevron (CVX)                              31.17M   30.79M      +1.2% 
ConocoPhillips (COP)                21.38M    17.37M      +23%
Marathon Oil (MRO)                     11.65M    5.62M        +3.6%      
Baker Hughes (BHI)                    15.38M    13.44M     +14.4% 
Transocean (RIG)                        16.27M    14.7M        +10.6%    
BJ Services (BJS)                         21.57M    19.21M     +12.3%
‘PetroBras’ (PBR)                            4.84M      3.15M       +53%
Williams Companies (WMB)      20.25M     17.93M     +12.9%
Oil Service HOLDRs(OIH)           20.9M     19.0M         +10%
GloabalSantaFe (GSF)                 10.7M      9.24M        +15.8%

Decreases in short interest

Stock (Ticker)                                  JUNE         MAY        Change
BP plc (BP)                                     5.945M       6.61M        -10%
Valero (VLO)                                   29.06M      46.05M      -36.8%
Schlumberger (SLB)                     20.94M      31.28M      -30%
Halliburton (HAL)                           44.27M      47.32M      -6.4%
Weatherford (WFT)                        17.93M      19.22M      -6.7%
Nat’l Oilwell Varco (NOV)               7.59M        8.06M        -5.8%
Hess Corp. (HES)                             6.4M        6.42M        -0.4%

Jon C. Ogg
June 22, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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