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$EXE Weakness looks more like financing/positioning noise than due to the $500M note deal. The irony is debt issuance is tied to the Twin Eagle transaction, and the acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive, contribute more than $200 million of annual EBITDA initially, and rise to roughly $350 million after synergies. Expand also raised its marketing/commercial free-cash-flow target to $750 million annually because of Twin Eagle. Twin Eagle deal is supposed to close in the next couple of weeks.
Twin Eagle actually reduces one weakness in the old EXE story: being too dependent on gas production and taking whatever price the market gives them. The combined company gets more storage, transport, marketing reach and optimization capability. That should make earnings more durable across different gas environments. I’m adding on this weakness.
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