For a midstream partnership like Hess Midstream (NYSE:HESM), the headline attraction is a large, growing distribution. But the question that actually determines the risk is whether the cash flow behind that distribution covers it comfortably, especially when the volumes flowing through the system are …
HighPeak Energy (NASDAQ:HPK) is a fast-growing Permian oil producer, and for a company like it the growth story cannot be separated from the balance sheet. HighPeak carries a substantial term loan, and the pace at which it can develop its acreage, return capital and …
Icahn Enterprises (NASDAQ:IEP) is famous for its distribution: a large, regular payout that translates into one of the highest headline yields in the market. For income-seeking investors that is the obvious attraction. But a very highYieldis a starting point for analysis, not a conclusion, …
Diversified Energy (NYSE:DEC) is known first for its dividend. It is built to own mature, long-life, low-decline gas and oil wells and to return cash to shareholders, so on the surface it is an income stock. But a highYieldis only as sound as the …
Empire Petroleum (NYSE American:EP) is trying to do a lot with a little. The company is pursuing an active program of drilling, well reactivations and enhanced-oil-recovery projects across several US basins, aiming to grow production from a low base. But itsBalance Sheetis slender, and …
Evolution Petroleum (NYSE American:EPM) is, unapologetically, a dividend stock: it has paid aCash Dividendevery quarter for more than a decade and returns a large share of its cash to shareholders. That makes the headlineYieldtempting to focus on, but the more important question for an …
Comstock Resources (NYSE:CRK) is a leveraged bet on the Haynesville, and in a gas market that has been weak, the swingFactorfor the stock is less theCommodityprice on any given day than how disciplined the company is with capital. The second quarter of 2026 illustrates …
For a company like Corsa Coal (OTC:CRSXQ), any discussion of coal prices has to begin with a more basic fact: theBusinessentered formalInsolvencyproceedings. The ticker itself carries the tell, the 'Q' appended to CRSXQ is the market's shorthand for a company in bankruptcy. So while …
Core Laboratories (NYSE:CLB) operates in a corner of the energy sector that trades heavily on sentiment: oilfield services, where share prices often swing with the oil price and the drilling mood rather than with the underlying business. Core's second-quarter 2026 results argue for looking …
AleAnna (NASDAQ:ANNA) answers its own headline: it is an energy company built around Italy's domestic natural-gas opportunity, and its recent results show why that opportunity matters. Italy imports a large share of its gas, so locally produced volumes can be sold into a market …