Why These Energy Stocks are Losing This Week

4. Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG)

Share Price Decline Between July 11 – July 18: 11.07%

Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) develops and constructs LNG export projects to provide clean, affordable energy to the world. The company is currently the second-largest LNG exporter in the United States.

Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) shot up significantly earlier this month following a series of positive developments for the company, including the signing of a multi-year sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Petronas LNG. Moreover, the LNG producer revealed that it had finalized an agreement with Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE) to provide the latter with an additional 0.75 MTPA of LNG from CP2 LNG for 20 years. So the recent pullback in share price could be due to profit-taking by investors.

Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE:VG) also faced downward pressure recently after Deutsche Bank downgraded the stock from ‘Buy’ to ‘Neutral’, while increasing its price target at the same time from $13.5 to $17. The analyst cited the company’s lack of liquidity in the Title Transfer Facility curve as well as its high spending on the Calcasieu Pass 2 development as the primary reasons behind the move.