5 Very Cheap Energy Stocks Ready To Explode

There has been some good news lately on the depressed oil price front, in the form of President Obama’s refusal to support the 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil and the American Petroleum Institute (APD) crude oil inventories showing a draw down to the tune of 3.1 million barrels in crude stocks for the week of September 11, as opposed to the build-up expected by analysts. In order to get ready for the hike in oil prices, investors need to take positions in equity holdings that would profit the most from it. In this regard we have compiled a list of five cheap energy stocks that hedge funds have been piling into, which in other words means that these companies have been thoroughly researched by elite professional money managers and have not been found wanting.

We pay attention to hedge funds’ moves because our research has shown that hedge funds are extremely talented at picking stocks on the long side of their portfolios. It is true that hedge fund investors have been underperforming the market in recent years. However, this was mainly because hedge funds’ short stock picks lost a ton of money during the bull market that started in March 2009. Hedge fund investors also paid an arm and a leg for the services that they received. We have been tracking the performance of hedge funds’ 15 most popular small-cap stock picks in real time since the end of August 2012. These stocks have returned 118% since then and outperformed the S&P 500 Index by around 60 percentage points (see the details here). That’s why we believe it is important to pay attention to hedge fund sentiment; we also don’t like paying huge fees.

5. Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE:OAS)

Investors with Long Positions (as of June 30): 28

Aggregate Value of Investors’ Holdings (as of June 30): $868.21 Million

Although the total number of hedge funds among those that we track with investments in the company fell by four during the second quarter, but total investments actually increased by over $91 million. The rise in interest came despite a 2% drop in Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE:OAS)’s stock price during the second quarter. While John H. Scully‘s SPO Advisory Corp is the largest stockholder of the company among these funds, holding some 20.37 million shares valued at $322.94 million, it was Kyle Bass’ Hayman Advisors that surged its holding in Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE:OAS) by the most during the second quarter, lifting it by 2,064% to 1.18 million shares.