Hot Building Product Companies To Own For 2015

Hot Building Product Companies To Own For 2015: ConocoPhillips(COP)

ConocoPhillips operates as an integrated energy company worldwide. The company?s Exploration and Production (E&P) segment explores for, produces, transports, and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and natural gas liquids. Its Midstream segment gathers, processes, and markets natural gas; and fractionates and markets natural gas liquids in the United States and Trinidad. The company?s Refining and Marketing (R&M) segment purchases, refines, markets, and transports crude oil and petroleum products, such as gasolines, distillates, and aviation fuels. Its Chemicals segment manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics. This segment offers olefins and polyolefins, including ethylene, propylene, and other olefin products; aromatics products, such as benzene, styrene, paraxylene, and cyclohexane, as well as polystyrene and styrene-butadiene copolymers; and various specialty chemical products comprising organosulfur chemicals, solvents, catalyst s, drilling chemicals, mining chemicals, and engineering plastics and compounds. The company?s Emerging Businesses segment develops new technologies and businesses. It focuses on power generation; and technologies related to conventional and nonconventional hydrocarbon recovery, refining, alternative energy, biofuels, and the environment. This segment also offers E-Gas, a gasification technology producing high-value synthetic gas. ConocoPhillips was founded in 1917 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Tyler Crowe]

  It should come as no surprise that the three companies that proposed and advocated for this rule change --ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM  ) , ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP  ) , and BP (NYSE: BP  ) -- have all made significant changes to their oil exploration plans immediately following the passing of the new tax rules. The most obvious example of this was ConocoPhillips. On! April 10, the company said it would halt oil exploration in Alaska's Chuckchi Sea citing bad economics. Then, on April 17, two days after the new tax structure was implemented, the company announced it was planning to boost production in theKuparuk and Prudhoe Bay regions.

• [By Claudia Assis]

  Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) rose 1.6%, while Chevron Corp. (CVX) shares advanced 1%. Shares of ConocoPhillips (COP) , however, declined 0.1%.

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