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Adams Resources stock target cut, retains buy rating on notable progress
On Friday, Singular Research adjusted its outlook on Adams Resources and Energy Inc. (NYSE:AE), reducing the stock price target to $38.75 from the previous $42.00, yet reaffirming a Buy rating on the stock. The revision reflects observations of notable progress in certain areas of the company’s operations, specifically within the oil segments.
The company experienced encouraging developments in the latter half of the first quarter of 2024, where both volumes and margins in the oil segments demonstrated considerable enhancement. This performance has been a key factor in the current assessment of the company’s valuation and future prospects.
Despite the lowered target, the firm’s stance on Adams Resources and Energy Inc. remains positive, with expectations of continued improvement. The analyst cited the recovery signs in specific business segments as a basis for maintaining the Buy rating.
The adjustment of the price target to $38.75 from $42.00 is indicative of a recalibrated expectation for the company’s stock value, taking into account the recent performance trends. Adams Resources and Energy Inc. is being closely monitored for its potential to capitalize on the positive dynamics within its oil segments.
Investors and market watchers are provided with the updated figures as a gauge for the company’s projected market performance. Adams Resources and Energy Inc. continues to be a point of interest due to its promising signs of recovery in the first quarter and the potential for sustained growth in its operational segments.
In other recent news, Adams Resources & Energy reported a positive shift in its first quarter of 2024 financial results. The company generated $6 million in EBITDA, bolstered by $1.8 million from inventory valuation and liquidation. Cash reserves increased by 10% from the previous quarter to $36.6 million, and liquidity improved to $83.6 million. Subsidiary GulfMark Energy and the VEX Pipeline both experienced significant volume increases.
Despite a temporary slowdown at Phoenix Oil due to reduced truck deliveries, Adams Resources & Energy anticipates resumed operations in the third quarter. The company also has plans to start barge deliveries in the Houston area, with further expansion expected through a new operational rail spur in Dayton, Texas by late 2024. Service Transport, another subsidiary, faced a soft market but is implementing strategies to increase capacity and rates.
These recent developments indicate a recovery across all divisions, with the company remaining optimistic about future market improvements and focused on capitalizing on opportunities. Adams Resources & Energy has not reported any specific financial misses during the earnings call.
InvestingPro Insights
Adams Resources and Energy Inc. (NYSE:AE) has shown a mix of challenges and strengths in the recent financial metrics. According to the latest data from InvestingPro, the company’s revenue for the last twelve months as of Q1 2024 stood at $2,756.18 million, indicating a decrease of 15.01% compared to the previous year. Despite this decline in revenue, the company has managed to maintain its dividend payments for 31 consecutive years, showcasing a commitment to shareholder returns, with a current dividend yield of 3.57% as of the latest data.
InvestingPro Tips suggest that while the stock trades with low price volatility, Adams Resources and Energy Inc. suffers from weak gross profit margins, currently at 1.7%. Additionally, analysts are not expecting the company to be profitable this year, with net income projected to drop. These insights may be particularly relevant for investors considering the company’s long-term profitability and cash flow health, as the valuation implies a poor free cash flow yield.
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(Reuters) -Private equity firm Insight Partners is on the brink of closing a new $10 billion-plus fund, roughly half the amount originally targeted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing five people with knowledge of its plans.
Insight will not formally close its 13th fund until early next year, the report said, adding that the final figure may be closer to $12 billion.
Insight Partners declined to comment on the report.
The report said Insight is using a private equity-style structure to sell more than $1 billion worth of stakes in start-ups and to free up cash to return to investors.
One of the start-ups is Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz, which had called off a $23 billion deal with Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:) in July, the report said.
New York-based Insight raised $20 billion for its 12th flagship fund in 2022, aiming to ramp up investments in software and technology companies.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for the first time.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that travelled 2,040 km (1270 miles) in just 11 1/2 minutes.
After initially saying the missile had fallen in an open area, Israel’s military later said it had probably fragmented in the air, and that pieces of interceptors had landed in fields and near a railway station. Nobody was reported hurt.
Air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel moments before the impact at around 6:35 a.m. local time (0335 GMT), sending residents running for shelter. Loud booms were heard.
Reuters saw smoke billowing in an open field in central Israel.
At a weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the Houthis should have known that Israel would exact a “heavy price” for attacks on Israel.
“Whoever needs a reminder of that is invited to visit the Hodeida port,” Netanyahu said, referring to an Israeli retaliatory air strike against Yemen in July for a Houthi drone that hit Tel Aviv.
The Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Israel repeatedly in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a Hamas attack on Israel in October.
The drone that hit Tel Aviv for the first time in July killed a man and wounded four people. Israeli air strikes in response on Houthi military targets near the port of Hodeidah killed six and wounded 80.
Previously, Houthi missiles have not penetrated deep into Israeli air space, with the only one reported to have hit Israeli territory falling in an open area near the Red Sea port of Eilat in March.
Israel should expect more strikes in the future “as we approach the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 operation, including responding to its aggression on the city of Hodeidah,” Sarea said.
The deputy head of the Houthi’s media office, Nasruddin Amer, said in a post on X on Sunday that the missile had reached Israel after “20 missiles failed to intercept” it, describing it as the “beginning”.
The Israeli military also said that 40 projectiles were fired towards Israel from Lebanon on Sunday and were either intercepted or landed in open areas.
“No injuries were reported,” the military said.
PARIS (Reuters) – Eight people have died trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said on Sunday, confirming earlier media reports.
This latest incident follows the deaths of 12 people earlier this month when their boat capsized in the Channel on its way to Britain and highlights the pressure on the British and French governments to find ways to tackle the boat crossings.
Jacques Billant, the Prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region, said that rescue crews were alerted that a boat with 59 people onboard was in difficulty in waters off the coast of Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais area.
“A new drama took place around one in the morning and we deplore the death of eight people,” he told a news conference, adding that the other 51 onboard were now in the care of rescue and medical crews.
The dead were men from Eritrea, Sudan, Syria, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan, he added.
The Channel is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and currents are strong, which makes crossing on small boats dangerous.
The latest incident brings to 46 the number of people who have died trying to cross the Channel from France since the start of the year, Billant said.
On September 14 alone there were eight attempts to cross the Channel from France and some 200 migrants were rescued, he said.
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