With the S&P 500 climbing to new all-time highs in 2015, it’s no secret that the collapse in oil prices has left much of the energy sector missing out on the party. While the market waits and watches for signs of life from energy stocks, eight Credit Suisse analysts each recently picked their top energy stocks to buy in eight different subsectors.
Here’s a full list of the names they chose.
1. Alternative Energy: SolarCity Corp SCTY 4.65%
Analyst Patrick Jobin sees the company as a “key beneficiary” in the trends toward residential solar and lower capital costs via use of financial vehicles.
2. Independent Refining: Marathon Petroleum Corp MPC 4.88%
Analyst Ed Westlake calls the company’s acquisition of Hess Corp. HES 0.94%’s retail business “well timed” and is confident that it can achieve its synergy targets.
3. Integrated Oil & Gas: Marathon Oil Corporation MRO 0.53%
Westlake believes that Marathon’s upstream cash margins “have room to rise as shale production rises and the oil price recovers.”
4. MLPs: Genesis Energy, L.P. GEL 0.74%
Analyst John Edwards believes…
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