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It’s not just Shell and Total returning money to shareholders, almost every natural resources group from Rio Tinto Plc to Anglo American Plc is either raising dividends or buying back shares.</p><p><blockquote>发生变化的是大宗商品价格普遍上涨，其中原油价格的飙升已与天然气、金属和其他大宗原材料相匹配或超过。不仅仅是壳牌和道达尔向股东返还资金，从力拓公司到英美资源集团，几乎所有自然资源集团都在提高股息或回购股票。</blockquote></p><p> “We wanted to signal to the market the confidence that we have in cash flows,” Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said on a conference call. In the oil market “supply is going to be constrained and demand is actually quite strong.”</p><p><blockquote>壳牌首席执行官本·范伯登(Ben van Beurden)在电话会议上表示：“我们希望向市场表明我们对现金流的信心。”在石油市场，“供应将受到限制，而需求实际上相当强劲。”</blockquote></p><p> Shell and TotalEnergies both reported big surges in adjusted net income and cash flow for the second quarter, taking the figures back to pre-pandemic levels. That had been largely expected by analysts, but the big improvement in shareholder returns caught them by surprise.</p><p><blockquote>壳牌和TotalEnergies均报告第二季度调整后净利润和现金流大幅飙升，使数字恢复到大流行前的水平。这在很大程度上是分析师预期的，但股东回报的大幅改善让他们感到惊讶。</blockquote></p><p> ”We knew Shell was set to raise distributions today, but the scale of the increase is significantly above expectations,” Redburn analyst Stuart Joyner said in a note.</p><p><blockquote>Redburn分析师斯图尔特·乔伊纳(Stuart Joyner)在一份报告中表示：“我们知道壳牌今天将提高分配，但增加的规模明显高于预期。”</blockquote></p><p> Shell has some catching up to do. Last year, it cut its dividend by two-thirds during the depths of the Covid-19 lockdowns. 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The French company may buy back as much as $800 million of its shares by the end of the year, assuming oil averages $66 a barrel, and as much as $1 billion if it averages $68, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said on a conference call.</p><p><blockquote>道达尔能源公司(Total Energies)在进入Covid-19危机时债务较少，并在整个经济低迷时期保持了派息，在投资者眼中表现较好。首席执行官Patrick Pouyanne在电话会议上表示，假设油价平均每桶66美元，这家法国公司可能会在今年年底前回购多达8亿美元的股票，如果平均每桶68美元，则回购多达10亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> The dividend will grow only when it’s backed by a “structural increase” in cash flow stemming from additional energy production and sales, Pouyanne said.</p><p><blockquote>Pouyanne表示，只有在额外能源生产和销售带来的现金流“结构性增长”的支持下，股息才会增长。</blockquote></p><p> Other European oil majors are taking a similar approach. BP Plc and Equinor ASA have already made incremental dividend increases and announced more modest buyback plans.</p><p><blockquote>其他欧洲石油巨头也在采取类似的做法。BP Plc和Equinor ASA已经逐步增加股息，并宣布了更温和的回购计划。</blockquote></p><p> Wooing investors has seldom been more important for Big Oil. The industry is under increasing pressure to turn away from fossil fuels and embrace clean energy as the world grapples with the evident dangers of a warming planet. Most of the European majors have laid out broad plans to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the century, but there are questions about how much it will cost and whether profits from renewable energy can match oil and gas.</p><p><blockquote>对于大型石油公司来说，吸引投资者从未如此重要。随着世界努力应对地球变暖的明显危险，该行业面临着越来越大的压力，要求其放弃化石燃料，拥抱清洁能源。大多数欧洲巨头都制定了到本世纪中叶实现净零排放的广泛计划，但人们对其成本以及可再生能源的利润能否与石油和天然气相媲美存在疑问。</blockquote></p><p> These doubts have weighed on the industry’s valuation, which overall is still 22% below its level at the end of 2019, said Banco Santander SA analyst Jason Kenney. A period of strong profits and cash flow will make it much easier for these companies to make the transition to clean energy while keeping investors on board.</p><p><blockquote>桑坦德银行(Banco Santander SA)分析师贾森·肯尼(Jason Kenney)表示，这些疑虑给该行业的估值带来了压力，总体而言，该行业的估值仍比2019年底的水平低22%。一段利润和现金流强劲的时期将使这些公司更容易向清洁能源转型，同时留住投资者。</blockquote></p><p> “The climate crisis requires significant investment to truly shift to low and no carbon energy,” Kenney said. “But there is a huge wall of cash on the horizon from integrated energy companies in the second half of 2021 and certainly by 2022. 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TotalEnergies SE didn’t manage quite that level of shock and awe, but promised to divert as much as 40% of its surplus cash to stock repurchases.</p><p><blockquote>荷兰皇家壳牌公司周四将股息提高了近40%，并回购了20亿美元的股票，令投资者感到惊讶。TotalEnergies SE并没有造成如此程度的震惊和敬畏，但承诺将多达40%的盈余现金用于股票回购。</blockquote></p><p> This marks a major turnaround for the industry, which is trying to persuade investors to stick with it despite mounting concerns about climate change. Until recently, both companies were focused on paying down debt and strengthening their balance sheets in the aftermath of the oil slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p><blockquote>这标志着该行业的重大转变，尽管对气候变化的担忧日益加剧，但该行业仍试图说服投资者坚持下去。直到最近，在冠状病毒大流行导致石油暴跌后，两家公司都专注于偿还债务和加强资产负债表。</blockquote></p><p> What’s changed is a broad rally in commodity prices, in which the surge in crude has been matched or exceeded by natural gas, metals and other bulk raw materials. It’s not just Shell and Total returning money to shareholders, almost every natural resources group from Rio Tinto Plc to Anglo American Plc is either raising dividends or buying back shares.</p><p><blockquote>发生变化的是大宗商品价格普遍上涨，其中原油价格的飙升已与天然气、金属和其他大宗原材料相匹配或超过。不仅仅是壳牌和道达尔向股东返还资金，从力拓公司到英美资源集团，几乎所有自然资源集团都在提高股息或回购股票。</blockquote></p><p> “We wanted to signal to the market the confidence that we have in cash flows,” Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said on a conference call. In the oil market “supply is going to be constrained and demand is actually quite strong.”</p><p><blockquote>壳牌首席执行官本·范伯登(Ben van Beurden)在电话会议上表示：“我们希望向市场表明我们对现金流的信心。”在石油市场，“供应将受到限制，而需求实际上相当强劲。”</blockquote></p><p> Shell and TotalEnergies both reported big surges in adjusted net income and cash flow for the second quarter, taking the figures back to pre-pandemic levels. That had been largely expected by analysts, but the big improvement in shareholder returns caught them by surprise.</p><p><blockquote>壳牌和TotalEnergies均报告第二季度调整后净利润和现金流大幅飙升，使数字恢复到大流行前的水平。这在很大程度上是分析师预期的，但股东回报的大幅改善让他们感到惊讶。</blockquote></p><p> ”We knew Shell was set to raise distributions today, but the scale of the increase is significantly above expectations,” Redburn analyst Stuart Joyner said in a note.</p><p><blockquote>Redburn分析师斯图尔特·乔伊纳(Stuart Joyner)在一份报告中表示：“我们知道壳牌今天将提高分配，但增加的规模明显高于预期。”</blockquote></p><p> Shell has some catching up to do. Last year, it cut its dividend by two-thirds during the depths of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Modest increases to the payout since then did little to boost the company’s appeal, with its market value today still more than a third below pre-pandemic levels despite a full recovery in oil prices.</p><p><blockquote>壳牌需要迎头赶上。去年，在Covid-19封锁最严重的时期，该公司将股息削减了三分之二。自那以来，派息的小幅增加并没有提高该公司的吸引力，尽管油价全面复苏，但其市值目前仍比大流行前的水平低三分之一以上。</blockquote></p><p> Total&nbsp;Energies, which entered the Covid-19 crisis with less debt and maintained its payout throughout the downturn, has fared better with investors. The French company may buy back as much as $800 million of its shares by the end of the year, assuming oil averages $66 a barrel, and as much as $1 billion if it averages $68, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said on a conference call.</p><p><blockquote>道达尔能源公司(Total Energies)在进入Covid-19危机时债务较少，并在整个经济低迷时期保持了派息，在投资者眼中表现较好。首席执行官Patrick Pouyanne在电话会议上表示，假设油价平均每桶66美元，这家法国公司可能会在今年年底前回购多达8亿美元的股票，如果平均每桶68美元，则回购多达10亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> The dividend will grow only when it’s backed by a “structural increase” in cash flow stemming from additional energy production and sales, Pouyanne said.</p><p><blockquote>Pouyanne表示，只有在额外能源生产和销售带来的现金流“结构性增长”的支持下，股息才会增长。</blockquote></p><p> Other European oil majors are taking a similar approach. BP Plc and Equinor ASA have already made incremental dividend increases and announced more modest buyback plans.</p><p><blockquote>其他欧洲石油巨头也在采取类似的做法。BP Plc和Equinor ASA已经逐步增加股息，并宣布了更温和的回购计划。</blockquote></p><p> Wooing investors has seldom been more important for Big Oil. The industry is under increasing pressure to turn away from fossil fuels and embrace clean energy as the world grapples with the evident dangers of a warming planet. Most of the European majors have laid out broad plans to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the century, but there are questions about how much it will cost and whether profits from renewable energy can match oil and gas.</p><p><blockquote>对于大型石油公司来说，吸引投资者从未如此重要。随着世界努力应对地球变暖的明显危险，该行业面临着越来越大的压力，要求其放弃化石燃料，拥抱清洁能源。大多数欧洲巨头都制定了到本世纪中叶实现净零排放的广泛计划，但人们对其成本以及可再生能源的利润能否与石油和天然气相媲美存在疑问。</blockquote></p><p> These doubts have weighed on the industry’s valuation, which overall is still 22% below its level at the end of 2019, said Banco Santander SA analyst Jason Kenney. A period of strong profits and cash flow will make it much easier for these companies to make the transition to clean energy while keeping investors on board.</p><p><blockquote>桑坦德银行(Banco Santander SA)分析师贾森·肯尼(Jason Kenney)表示，这些疑虑给该行业的估值带来了压力，总体而言，该行业的估值仍比2019年底的水平低22%。一段利润和现金流强劲的时期将使这些公司更容易向清洁能源转型，同时留住投资者。</blockquote></p><p> “The climate crisis requires significant investment to truly shift to low and no carbon energy,” Kenney said. “But there is a huge wall of cash on the horizon from integrated energy companies in the second half of 2021 and certainly by 2022. And financial frames look credible and attractive at current levels.”</p><p><blockquote>肯尼说：“气候危机需要大量投资才能真正转向低碳和无碳能源。”“但到2021年下半年，当然到2022年，综合能源公司将出现巨额现金。而且在目前的水平上，财务框架看起来可信且有吸引力。”</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-oil-shows-confidence-era-113603861.html\">Bloomberg</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"RDS.A":"荷兰皇家壳牌石油A类股"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-oil-shows-confidence-era-113603861.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1153202474","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s largest oil and gas companies showed confidence that the era of big profits is back by significantly boosting returns to shareholders.\nRoyal Dutch Shell Plc surprised investors on Thursday with a dividend hike of almost 40% and $2 billion of share buybacks. TotalEnergies SE didn’t manage quite that level of shock and awe, but promised to divert as much as 40% of its surplus cash to stock repurchases.\nThis marks a major turnaround for the industry, which is trying to persuade investors to stick with it despite mounting concerns about climate change. Until recently, both companies were focused on paying down debt and strengthening their balance sheets in the aftermath of the oil slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\nWhat’s changed is a broad rally in commodity prices, in which the surge in crude has been matched or exceeded by natural gas, metals and other bulk raw materials. It’s not just Shell and Total returning money to shareholders, almost every natural resources group from Rio Tinto Plc to Anglo American Plc is either raising dividends or buying back shares.\n“We wanted to signal to the market the confidence that we have in cash flows,” Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said on a conference call. In the oil market “supply is going to be constrained and demand is actually quite strong.”\nShell and TotalEnergies both reported big surges in adjusted net income and cash flow for the second quarter, taking the figures back to pre-pandemic levels. That had been largely expected by analysts, but the big improvement in shareholder returns caught them by surprise.\n”We knew Shell was set to raise distributions today, but the scale of the increase is significantly above expectations,” Redburn analyst Stuart Joyner said in a note.\nShell has some catching up to do. Last year, it cut its dividend by two-thirds during the depths of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Modest increases to the payout since then did little to boost the company’s appeal, with its market value today still more than a third below pre-pandemic levels despite a full recovery in oil prices.\nTotal Energies, which entered the Covid-19 crisis with less debt and maintained its payout throughout the downturn, has fared better with investors. The French company may buy back as much as $800 million of its shares by the end of the year, assuming oil averages $66 a barrel, and as much as $1 billion if it averages $68, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said on a conference call.\nThe dividend will grow only when it’s backed by a “structural increase” in cash flow stemming from additional energy production and sales, Pouyanne said.\nOther European oil majors are taking a similar approach. BP Plc and Equinor ASA have already made incremental dividend increases and announced more modest buyback plans.\nWooing investors has seldom been more important for Big Oil. The industry is under increasing pressure to turn away from fossil fuels and embrace clean energy as the world grapples with the evident dangers of a warming planet. Most of the European majors have laid out broad plans to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of the century, but there are questions about how much it will cost and whether profits from renewable energy can match oil and gas.\nThese doubts have weighed on the industry’s valuation, which overall is still 22% below its level at the end of 2019, said Banco Santander SA analyst Jason Kenney. A period of strong profits and cash flow will make it much easier for these companies to make the transition to clean energy while keeping investors on board.\n“The climate crisis requires significant investment to truly shift to low and no carbon energy,” Kenney said. “But there is a huge wall of cash on the horizon from integrated energy companies in the second half of 2021 and certainly by 2022. 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