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 98.51

+1.32 +1.36%
Volume: 3,843,876
Track APA

APC 63.54

+1.21 +1.94%
Volume: 4,433,388
Track APC

BP 53.61

+1.18 +2.25%
Volume: 8,017,014
Track BP

COG 38.38

+0.72 +1.91%
Volume: 1,601,953
Track COG

COP 48.49

+1.12 +2.36%
Volume: 13,346,627
Track COP

CRK 36.83

-0.49 -1.31%
Volume: 2,512,451
Track CRK

CVX 71.31

+1.18 +1.68%
Volume: 13,051,874
Track CVX

DVN 67.30

+1.16 +1.75%
Volume: 3,853,293
Track DVN

EOG 94.54

+2.96 +3.23%
Volume: 2,663,867
Track EOG

FTO 12.65

+0.22 +1.77%
Volume: 1,478,382
Track FTO

HES 57.69

+0.66 +1.16%
Volume: 4,966,334
Track HES

MUR 51.52

+1.39 +2.77%
Volume: 2,108,096
Track MUR

NBL 74.43

+1.83 +2.52%
Volume: 1,256,854
Track NBL

PXD 46.31

+2.04 +4.61%
Volume: 2,468,709
Track PXD

RDS.A 64.36

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

SUN 25.84

+0.64 +2.54%
Volume: 2,330,073
Track SUN

TSO 12.00

+0.19 +1.61%
Volume: 6,759,674
Track TSO

VLO 18.10

+0.25 +1.40%
Volume: 8,816,713
Track VLO

XOM 65.20

+0.85 +1.32%
Volume: 36,243,264
Track XOM

XTO 45.63

+0.66 +1.47%
Volume: 13,020,520
Track XTO


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