Frack Attack

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, lets companies extract previously inaccessible oil and natural gas from shale rock formations deep within the earth - all at a relatively low cost. The technology has breathed new life into the natural gas industry, boosting production and driving down prices – even as environmental concerns mount. Natural gas could supply 25% of US energy needs by 2035. While still in its infancy overseas, fracking has the potential to be a global phenomenon. China, the world’s second largest energy consumer, has large shale gas reserves and is now moving quickly to deploy fracking to access them.

This motif contains stocks of companies that provide fracking technologies and services to oil and gas developers.

We identified US-listed stocks and American Depository Receipts of companies that are engaged in activities relevant to this watchlist's theme. We then filtered out companies that have a share price of less than .00 or a market capitalization less than 00 million, and excluded illiquid stocks by screening companies for liquidity i.e. average bid-ask spreads, dollar volume traded etc. Finally the proprietary Motif Optimization Engine determined the constituent stocks. Learn more about how we select our watchlists.

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First, we determined each company's percentage of total revenue derived from this watchlist's theme. Second, we applied a pure-play factor to give greater relative weight to companies that derive a higher percentage of their revenue from this theme. Finally, we weighted each company by its market capitalization adjusted for revenue exposure to the theme.

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