Big Oil Could Trim Buybacks After Price Rout

Analysts are not ruling out the possibility that some oil and gas supermajors could announce as soon as this week reduced share buyback programs for this year compared to the guidance from early 2025, before the oil price slide. Investors will be more focused to learn how Big Oil plans to cope with the 12% decline in oil prices so far this year and whether the dividend and share repurchases still stand as pledged at the Q4 earnings calls, than on the exact number of billions of U.S. dollars the firms made in the first quarter, analysts at investment…