Occidental wrapped fiscal 2025 by selling its chemicals arm to Berkshire and shrinking into a focused driller. Occidental's Q4 was about subtraction. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.31 on revenue of $5.42 billion, with a $68 million net loss tied to the OxyChem sale. Production beat guidance at 1,481 Mboed, and the Permian carried the quarter.
Centuri ended 2025 with a $5.9 billion backlog, up 59% from the prior year, 82% of which was MSA work. For 2026, the company already has approximately $1.1 billion in year-to-date bookings, covering over 85% of the midpoint of its 2026 base revenue guidance.
Total adjusted EBITDA -- $91.1 million, up 16.6% ($13 million), with margin rising to 15.6% from 12.6% year over year. Digital revenues -- $277.5 million, a 5.6% sequential increase and a slight year over year same-store increase, surpassing 47% of total revenue, an all-time high.
The company just raised its quarterly dividend to $0.63 in January 2026, a 6.8% increase from the prior $0.59 rate. That puts the annual payout at $2.52 per share with a yield around 1.9%. Not eye-popping, but the safety and growth profile more than compensate. Abbott generated $6.35 billion in free cash flow in 2024 against $3.84 billion in dividend payments.
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WeWork Inc. (formerly trading as WEWKQ) was the poster child for taking advantage of the gap in the market with the offering of flexible office space to freelancers. They rose with rapid expansion during the 2010s. Now, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructuring its business model, traders and investors face an important question: can the company rise from the ashes into a market that has changed?
The sale frees up capital and boosts flexibility for the company's ADS buyback program. Sequans is the first publicly listed Bitcoin treasury company to offload a significant portion of its holdings. The transaction does not change the company's long-term Bitcoin strategy, the company said. The Paris-based IoT semiconductor provider will continue to pursue its Bitcoin treasury initiative while exploring capital markets opportunities.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe's chemicals empire, Ineos, has introduced a company-wide hiring freeze as it prioritises debt reduction following years of rapid expansion and weakening market conditions. The British-founded group confirmed a "general recruitment freeze" while tightening capital spending after acquiring assets worth around €2.7 billion across the US, Europe and Asia between 2022 and 2024. The move comes as Ineos grapples with overcapacity in the chemicals market, new US tariffs and falling prices that have squeezed margins across its core businesses.
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