Monday, December 15, 2014

* Oil & Gas: How Big is it... Really, and Who's Losing Money?


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I have a full blown article surrounding the Oil & Gas Sector coming out on MarketWatch this week, but for now let's just look at two visualizations to get us warmed up.


On the x-axis we have charted total revenue and on the y-axis we have charted total assets. The bubbles are colored by region of the world.

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It may surprise you, but the largest oil and gas companies in the world are mostly in Europe (red bubbles). In total, this sector comprises over $7.6 trillion in revenue and about $8.4 trillion in assets.


In an effort to find a possible list of companies to ‘avoid’, let’s now turn to the mega cap portion of this sector, those companies that have a market cap above $20 billion.

On the x-axis we have total revenue, 2-year growth % and on the y-axis we have plotted net income, 2-year growth %. We have only included the firms with both negative growth in revenue and negative growth in net income.

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