- Investors are dumping Apache (APA -6.6%) shares after Anadarko Petroleum (APC -4.1%) withdrew its takeover bid for the company, but Oppenheimer analyst Chris Kotowski says the two companies were “not a good fit.”
- "Many investors believe APC’s pre-emptive action was in self defense to make it more difficult for a potential buyer to make a bid... [but] we do not think the combination of APC and APA would be a good fit that would create value for their shareholders, and our view was reflected by the market reaction," Kotowski writes.
- RBC analyst Leo Mariani says APA is undervalued and has a strong enough balance sheet to wait out the current weakness in oil prices.