San Antonio, TX-based Tesoro Corporation announced that it has decided to purchase the Madison, WI-based renewable fuels and chemical company, Virent. The deal is intended to support the latter in bringing biofuels technology to commercial scale.
Under this deal, Tesoro will provide resources and expertise to Virent in order to help the company scale up and commercialize its BioForming technology for the production of low carbon bio-based fuels and chemicals.
Moreover, Tesoro expects the addition of Virent will help it to lower costs in compliance with the federal renewable fuel standard and California`s low carbon fuel standard.
Post acquisition, Virent will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesoro but continue to operate from Madison. The strategic relationship between the two companies was initiated in Jan 2016 and is expected to close by the end of September. Terms of the agreement, however, have not been disclosed as yet.
TESORO CORP Price
Tesoro is an independent refiner and marketer of refined petroleum products in the western U.S. The company operates via three segments – Refining (accounted for 58.4% of the company’s total 2015 operating income), TLLP (13.2%) and Marketing (28.4%).
Tesoro has been in troubled waters of late due to TLLP's (the company's logistics partnership) lack of organic growth prospects and weaker retail fuel margin. Moreover, with cost of gasoline, heating oil, and other refined products catching up on the beaten down crude price, crack spreads have come under pressure. This is expected to have an adverse affect on Tesoro’s earnings and cash flows.
Hence, the company currently carries a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), which implies that the stock will underperform the broader U.S. equity market over the next one to three months.
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San Antonio, TX-based Tesoro Corporation announced that it has decided to purchase the Madison, WI-based renewable fuels and chemical company, Virent. The deal is intended to support the latter in bringing biofuels technology to commercial scale.
Under this deal, Tesoro will provide resources and expertise to Virent in order to help the company scale up and commercialize its BioForming technology for the production of low carbon bio-based fuels and chemicals.
Moreover, Tesoro expects the addition of Virent will help it to lower costs in compliance with the federal renewable fuel standard and California`s low carbon fuel standard.
Post acquisition, Virent will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesoro but continue to operate from Madison. The strategic relationship between the two companies was initiated in Jan 2016 and is expected to close by the end of September. Terms of the agreement, however, have not been disclosed as yet.
TESORO CORP Price
Tesoro is an independent refiner and marketer of refined petroleum products in the western U.S. The company operates via three segments – Refining (accounted for 58.4% of the company’s total 2015 operating income), TLLP (13.2%) and Marketing (28.4%).
Tesoro has been in troubled waters of late due to TLLP's (the company's logistics partnership) lack of organic growth prospects and weaker retail fuel margin. Moreover, with cost of gasoline, heating oil, and other refined products catching up on the beaten down crude price, crack spreads have come under pressure. This is expected to have an adverse affect on Tesoro’s earnings and cash flows.
Hence, the company currently carries a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), which implies that the stock will underperform the broader U.S. equity market over the next one to three months.
Some better-ranked players from the broader energy sector include NGL Energy Partners LP (NGL - Free Report) , Enviva Partners, LP (EVA - Free Report) and Matador Resources Company (MTDR - Free Report) . All these stocks sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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