Royal Dutch Shell was named by JPMorgan Cazenove as its top pick in the oil sector, as the broker flagged its cash-generation potential.
The analysts said selling Shell’s Permian Basin assets could fetch at least $10 billion and help not just its decarbonization push but also give balance sheet and capital allocation headroom. At $60 a barrel, net debt could fall below $40 billion by the end of 2022, the analysts said, and that Shell could return a cumulative 18% of its market cap to investors in stock buybacks and dividends between 2021 and 2023.
The U.K. oil and gas sector climbed on Tuesday as Brent crude-oil futures reached $75 a barrel, after closing Monday at its highest level since Oct. 31, 2018. Shell RDSB,
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