North America United States
Industrials Integrated Oil
2 March 2009
US Integrated Oils
WACC a goal
Paul Sankey
Research Analyst
(1) 212 250 6137
paul.sankey@db.com
Silvio Micheloto, CFA
Research Analyst
(1) 212 250 1653
silvio.micheloto@db.com
Buy-rated Oxy and XOM screen lowest beta/best for defense.
In this note, we examine WACC, and particularly, we back-calculate the market
discounted WACC of the major oils. We assume the oils price in the commodity
strip and iterate the equity price-implied WACC. It takes a big database (DB +
Wood Mac) + a lot of manhours and computers, but we have the graph. We
highlight there are two elements to the beta in oil stocks 1) oil price leverage, 2)
WACC leverage. A beta play is a double play as the two are positively correlated: if
oil prices start rising it will be due to a more healthy, less risky economy.
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Industry Update
Top picks
Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N),USD51.87 Buy
Canadian Natural (CNQ.TO),CAD40.90 Buy
Companies featured
ExxonMobil (XOM.N),USD67.90 Buy
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 8.46 4.18 5.84
P/E (x) 9.8 16.2 11.6
EV/EBITDA (x) 5.5 8.7 7.4
Chevron (CVX.N),USD60.71 Hold
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 11.18 3.69 5.84
P/E (x) 7.6 16.5 10.4
EV/EBITDA (x) 3.9 5.9 4.5
ConocoPhillips (COP.N),USD37.35 Hold
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 10.60 2.97 5.91
P/E (x) 7.1 12.6 6.3
EV/EBITDA (x) 3.8 2.7 1.8
Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N),USD51.87 Buy
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 8.95 2.02 4.11
P/E (x) 8.0 25.6 12.6
EV/EBITDA (x) 4.2 7.0 4.3
Marathon Oil (MRO.N),USD23.27 Hold
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 6.36 1.91 3.42
P/E (x) 6.8 12.2 6.8
EV/EBITDA (x) 3.8 4.6 3.3
Hess Corporation (HES.N),USD54.69 Hold
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 7.28 -0.89 1.73
P/E (x) 12.3 – 31.6
EV/EBITDA (x) 4.0 9.0 4.9
Murphy Oil (MUR.N),USD41.81 Sell
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (USD) 8.52 1.40 3.08
P/E (x) 8.5 29.9 13.6
EV/EBITDA (x) 3.5 5.2 3.6
Canadian Natural (CNQ.TO),CAD40.90 Buy
2007A 2008E 2009E
EPS (CAD) 5.05 5.96 3.69
P/E (x) 13.5 6.9 11.1
EV/EBITDA (x) 7.1 4.6 5.0
Suncor Energy (SU.TO),CAD26.46 Sell
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (CAD) 3.49 1.00 1.58
P/E (x) 13.7 26.4 16.7
EV/EBITDA (x) 10.2 13.2 9.8
Petro-Canada (PCA.TO),CAD28.08 Hold
2008A 2009E 2010E
EPS (CAD) 7.82 2.19 3.97
P/E (x) 5.6 12.8 7.1
EV/EBITDA (x) 3.0 4.0 3.1
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Understanding why oil price leveraged Oxy outperforms WTI
When we went outright negative on oil in October, we cut our price targets not
only on lower expected earnings/returns for the oils, but also because we raised
the basic WACC for the group from 7.5% to 10%. We highlighted that the impact
of rising WACC was greater than falling oil price. We re-visit those arguments
here; as markets gyrate, beta is higher cost of debt is lower; and net cash XOM
and Oxy have massively out-performed. Oxy is particularly interesting, as its high
oil price leverage has been more than offset by even higher sensitivity to WACC.
Table of Contents
WACC Details..................................................................................... 3
The performance................................................................................ 7
The deck ............................................................................................. 8
The valuations.................................................................................. 10
Management value.......................................................................... 12
EV/BOE: Cheapest barrels on Wall Street..................................... 14
Reserves replacement/sustainability ............................................ 15
Volume growth................................................................................ 16
Earnings momentum....................................................................... 17
Oil share in S&P 500 EPS ................................................................ 18
Net income sensitivity .................................................................... 19
Upstream net income per barrel produced................................... 20
Downstream net income per barrel refined.................................. 21
Cash return to shareholders ........................................................... 22
Return on capital employed ........................................................... 23
DCF Implied Discounted Oil Price .................................................. 24
ExxonMobil – NAV, P&L, Cashflow................................................ 25
Chevron – NAV, P&L, Cash flow..................................................... 27
ConocoPhillips – NAV, P&L, Cashflow........................................... 29
Occidental – NAV, P&L, Cashflow.................................................. 31
Marathon – NAV, P&L, Cashflow ................................................... 33
Hess – NAV, P&L, Cashflow............................................................ 35
Murphy – NAV, P&L, Cashflow....................................................... 37
Suncor – NAV, P&L, Cashflow........................................................ 39
Petro-Canada – NAV, P&L, Cashflow............................................. 41
Canadian Natural Resources – NAV, P&L, Cashflow.................... 43