Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Oil and Gas, Mint Finance

Suhas Reddy

Oil and Gas

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Consensus expects EPS to jump sharply despite lower throughput, betting on record margins per barrel after four straight beats of growing size.</li>
<li>Management flagged stronger Q3 margins on cheaper crude and expects tight fuel inventories to last through 2027, while a USD 7.9 billion cash pile points to potentially larger buybacks.</li>
<li>The stock trades above its average analyst target and options holders are hedging gains with deep puts, so an in-line quarter may not be enough.</li>
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Consensus expects EPS to jump sharply despite lower throughput, betting on record margins per barrel after four straight beats of growing size.
Management flagged stronger Q3 margins on cheaper crude and expects tight fuel inventories to last through 2027, while a USD 7.9 billion cash pile points to potentially larger buybacks.
The stock trades above its average analyst target and options holders are hedging gains with deep puts, so an in-line quarter may not be enough.


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