Pros: 'These' Oil Names Won’t Climb with Crude

If you're betting on higher oil , hopefully you're not playing it with these stocks. Karen Finerman doesn't think the trade will work.

She's talking about the tanker stocks.

Oil has had a nice run over the last month with some analysts even calling for $100 per barrel. Since higher oil is a sign of global growth it's easy to think that tanker stocks - that is the companies that move the oil - will benefit from the march higher.

However, that's probably not the case.

"Tanker stocks are not correlated to the price of oil," Finerman says, "Instead it’s with the quantity of oil that is needed to be moved around the globe."

And even though both price and demand have increased over recent months – day rates have moved down dramatically.

"There’s been a 90% reduction in day rates. It’s staggering." Finerman says.

A published report on Bloomberg confirms Finerman's thesis. "Shipping companies are making $3,826 a day for a single voyage, 88 percent below the breakeven point of $30,900 -- the amount that tanker giant Frontline says it needs to break even.

That’s because the supply of ships available relative to the amount of oil needed to be moved is out of balance.

"Rates are so far below where the operating break even is – it’s really a big problem," Finerman says.

And we haven't seen older ships come off the market yet. "The supply demand dynamic is just out of whack."

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