The following are the highest rated Vitality shares in accordance with Validea’s Progress Investor mannequin primarily based on the printed technique of Martin Zweig. This technique appears to be like for progress shares with persistent accelerating earnings and gross sales progress, cheap valuations and low debt.

MATADOR RESOURCES CO (MTDR) is a mid-cap worth inventory within the Oil & Gasoline Operations business. The ranking in accordance with our technique primarily based on Martin Zweig is 89% primarily based on the agency’s underlying fundamentals and the inventory’s valuation. A rating of 80% or above sometimes signifies that the technique has some curiosity within the inventory and a rating above 90% sometimes signifies sturdy curiosity.

Firm Description: Matador Assets Firm is an unbiased vitality firm. The Firm is engaged within the exploration, improvement, manufacturing and acquisition of oil and pure gasoline sources in the US, with an emphasis on oil and pure gasoline shale and different unconventional performs. Its segments embody exploration and manufacturing and midstream. The exploration and manufacturing section is engaged within the exploration, improvement, manufacturing and acquisition of oil and pure gasoline sources in the US and is targeted totally on the oil and liquids-rich portion of the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring performs within the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. The midstream section conducts midstream operations by way of its midstream three way partnership, San Mateo, in help of its exploration, improvement and manufacturing operations, present pure gasoline processing, oil transportation providers, oil, pure gasoline, produced water gathering providers, produced water disposal providers to 3rd events.

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BRIGHAM MINERALS INC (MNRL) is a small-cap worth inventory within the Oil & Gasoline – Built-in business. The ranking in accordance with our technique primarily based on Martin Zweig is 85% primarily based on the agency’s underlying fundamentals and the inventory’s valuation. A rating of 80% or above sometimes signifies that the technique has some curiosity within the inventory and a rating above 90% sometimes signifies sturdy curiosity.

Firm Description: Brigham Minerals, Inc. is a mineral and royalty curiosity acquisition firm. The Firm is targeted on buying oil and gasoline mineral rights throughout the US. The Firm’s portfolio consists of mineral and royalty pursuits throughout six liquids-rich useful resource performs within the continental United States, together with the Delaware and Midland Basins in West Texas and New Mexico, the South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP) and Sooner Pattern Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher Counties (STACK) performs within the Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma, the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin in Colorado and Wyoming and the Williston Basin in North Dakota. Its Delaware Basin mineral and royalty pursuits are situated in Reeves, Loving, Ward, Pecos, Culberson and Winkler Counties, Texas with its remaining pursuits situated in Lea and Eddy Counties, New Mexico. Its Midland Basin mineral and royalty pursuits are situated in Martin, Midland, Upton, Howard, Glasscock and Reagan Counties, Texas.

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MPLX LP (MPLX) is a large-cap worth inventory within the Oil Nicely Companies & Gear business. The ranking in accordance with our technique primarily based on Martin Zweig is 85% primarily based on the agency’s underlying fundamentals and the inventory’s valuation. A rating of 80% or above sometimes signifies that the technique has some curiosity within the inventory and a rating above 90% sometimes signifies sturdy curiosity.

Firm Description: MPLX LP is a diversified grasp restricted partnership (MLP) that owns and operates midstream vitality infrastructure and logistics belongings and supplies fuels distribution providers. The Firm’s segments embody Logistics and Storage (L&S) and Gathering and Processing (G&P) segments. Its L&S section primarily engages within the gathering, transportation, storage, and distribution of crude oil, refined merchandise, and different hydrocarbon-based merchandise. It additionally operates refining logistics, fuels distribution and inland marine companies, terminals, rail services and storage caverns. Its belongings encompass crude oil and refined product pipelines and related storage belongings, tank farm belongings together with rail and truck racks, an export terminal, and a fuels distribution enterprise. The G&P section primarily engages within the gathering, processing, and transportation of pure gasoline in addition to the gathering, transportation, fractionation, storage, and advertising of pure gasoline liquids (NGLs).

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DORCHESTER MINERALS LP (DMLP) is a small-cap worth inventory within the Oil & Gasoline – Built-in business. The ranking in accordance with our technique primarily based on Martin Zweig is 82% primarily based on the agency’s underlying fundamentals and the inventory’s valuation. A rating of 80% or above sometimes signifies that the technique has some curiosity within the inventory and a rating above 90% sometimes signifies sturdy curiosity.

Firm Description: Dorchester Minerals, L.P. is a restricted partnership firm. The Firm’s basic companion is Dorchester Minerals Administration LP, which is managed by its basic companion, Dorchester Minerals Administration GP LLC. The Firm is engaged in producing and nonproducing pure gasoline and crude oil royalty, leasehold pursuits, the acquisition, possession, and administration of Royalty Properties, and Internet Income Curiosity (NPI). The Firm owns producing and nonproducing minerals, royalty, overriding royalty, internet income, and leasehold pursuits. The Firm refers to those pursuits as Royalty Properties. It owns Royalty Properties in roughly 582 counties and parishes in 26 states. The Firm owns NPI in varied properties owned by Dorchester Minerals Working LP (the Working Partnership), a restricted partnership owned by its Basic Accomplice.

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VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION (VLO) is a large-cap worth inventory within the Oil & Gasoline Operations business. The ranking in accordance with our technique primarily based on Martin Zweig is 82% primarily based on the agency’s underlying fundamentals and the inventory’s valuation. A rating of 80% or above sometimes signifies that the technique has some curiosity within the inventory and a rating above 90% sometimes signifies sturdy curiosity.

Firm Description: Valero Vitality Company (Valero) is a global producer and marketer of petroleum-based and low-carbon liquid transportation fuels and petrochemical merchandise. The Firm’s segments embody Refining, Renewable Diesel and Ethanol. The Refining section consists of the operations of its petroleum refineries, the related advertising actions, and logistics belongings that help its refining operations. The Renewable Diesel section sells renewable diesel to the refining section. The Ethanol section consists of the operations of its ethanol vegetation, the related advertising actions, and logistics belongings that help its ethanol operations. Valero owns 15 petroleum refineries situated in the US (U.S.), Canada and the UK (U.Okay.). The Firm can be a three way partnership companion in Diamond Inexperienced Diesel (DGD), which owns and operates a renewable diesel plant situated within the Gulf Coast area of the US.

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About Martin Zweig: Through the 15 years that it was monitored, Zweig’s inventory suggestion e-newsletter returned a mean of 15.9 % per 12 months, throughout which era it was ranked primary primarily based on risk-adjusted returns by Hulbert Monetary Digest. Zweig has managed each mutual and hedge funds throughout his profession, and he is put the fortune he is compiled to some fascinating makes use of. He has owned what Forbes reported was the most costly residence in New York, a $70 million penthouse that sits atop Manhattan’s Pierre Lodge, and he’s a collector of all types of popular culture and historic memorabilia — amongst his purchases are the gun utilized by Clint Eastwood in “Soiled Harry”, a inventory certificates signed by Commodore Vanderbilt, and even two old style gasoline pumps just like these he’d seen at a close-by gasoline station whereas rising up in Cleveland, in accordance with printed experiences.

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