Oppenheimer Upgrades Oil and Gas Stocks; Sees Industry Consolidation

October 20, 2008 10:48 AM EDT

Oppenheimer upgraded a number of oil and gas companies this morning, saying they expect industry consolidation in the next 12 months

Upgraded to Outperform:

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC)
Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA)
BP plc (NYSE: BP)
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE: COG)
Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX)
Comstock Resources Inc. (NYSE: CRK)
ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP)
Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN)
EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EOG)
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM)
Frontier Oil Corp. (NYSE: FTO)
Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES)
Murphy Oil Corp. (NYSE: MUR)
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL)
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (NYSE: PXD)
Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.a)
Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN)
Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO)
Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO)
XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO)


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Upgrades

Stocks Mentioned

APA 96.47

-0.60 -0.62%
Volume: 2,498,798
Track APA

APC 61.29

-0.41 -0.66%
Volume: 4,191,554
Track APC

BP 57.83

-0.80 -1.36%
Volume: 3,338,143
Track BP

COG 38.22

-0.58 -1.49%
Volume: 1,291,826
Track COG

COP 52.08

-0.48 -0.91%
Volume: 11,853,835
Track COP

CRK 36.10

-1.54 -4.09%
Volume: 909,422
Track CRK

CVX 76.77

-0.57 -0.74%
Volume: 10,631,551
Track CVX

DVN 67.50

-1.67 -2.41%
Volume: 4,742,215
Track DVN

EOG 86.47

-0.45 -0.52%
Volume: 3,218,989
Track EOG

FTO 12.32

+0.06 +0.49%
Volume: 2,766,785
Track FTO

HES 58.84

+1.28 +2.22%
Volume: 5,823,968
Track HES

MUR 57.06

-0.55 -0.95%
Volume: 2,309,712
Track MUR

NBL 64.77

+0.58 +0.90%
Volume: 2,699,160
Track NBL

PXD 40.91

-0.40 -0.97%
Volume: 1,142,800
Track PXD

RDS.A 64.36

+0.36 +0.56%
Volume: 147,200
Track RDS.A

SUN 25.93

+0.39 +1.53%
Volume: 5,823,032
Track SUN

TSO 13.25

+0.03 +0.23%
Volume: 4,803,952
Track TSO

VLO 16.47

+0.11 +0.67%
Volume: 12,711,941
Track VLO

XOM 74.38

-0.27 -0.36%
Volume: 19,269,879
Track XOM

XTO 41.11

-0.52 -1.25%
Volume: 9,441,035
Track XTO


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