12 Best Crude Oil Stocks To Buy According to Hedge Funds

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6. EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 64

One of the top crude oil stocks for passive income, EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG) has delivered 27 years of regular dividends without ever reducing its payouts, which is a rarity in the oil patch. Moreover, the company has grown its cash distributions twice as fast as its peers since 2019 and even has a history of paying special dividends in order to meet its goal of returning at least 70% of its annual free cash flow to shareholders.

To make sure it can deliver the growth necessary to sustain its payouts, EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG) announced in May that it is acquiring Encino Acquisition Partners in a deal worth $5.6 billion, giving the company access to an additional 675,000 net core acres and more than 1 billion barrels of undeveloped net resource.

EOG expects the deal to be immediately accretive and boost its cash flow from operations and free cash flow by 9%. As a result, the company bumped its quarterly dividend by 4.6% to $1.02 per share, taking its current annual dividend yield to 3.35%.

EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE:EOG) is one of the largest crude oil and natural gas exploration and production companies with operations in North America and Trinidad and Tobago.

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