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Shell (SHEL) closed the week at $96.23, up from the prior Friday’s $95.61. The S&P 500 slipped 0.27% over the same period, so Shell held up better than the broad market. Daily trading ranged from $94.97 to $96.38 through Monday to Friday, a session of narrow, rangebound moves.
Key Events
The main storyline this week was Shell’s LNG business. On Monday, a Kkb Engineering unit received a letter of award from Sarawak Shell for an EPC offshore structures project. On Tuesday, the Shell-led LNG Canada partnership approved the Phase 2 expansion following a final investment decision, doubling export capacity; Goldman Sachs also kept its buy rating on Shell (UK). Earlier in the week, Shell executives acquired dividend shares worth about EUR 157,000, GBP 211,000 and USD 1,770.
Analyst Ratings
Sixteen firms currently cover Shell, with six rating it strong buy, one overweight and nine hold; there are no underweight or sell ratings. The consensus rating is buy, and the consensus target price is $103.81, about 7.88% above the latest price. Individual targets range from $83 to $123, a fairly wide spread. Within the integrated oil and gas industry, Shell ranks 8th out of 15 companies.
The Week Ahead
Next week brings the S&P Global services PMI final and ISM non-manufacturing PMI on 5 October, US international trade data on 6 October, and EIA weekly crude and Cushing inventories on 7 October. Shell’s next major release is its Q3 2026 results, scheduled for 29 October before the open, with the market expecting EPS of $3.215.
In Short
The rating picture this week leans constructive, with a buy consensus and a target above spot, but the gap between the lowest and highest targets is $40, which points to real disagreement. Valuation sits at 10.62x P/E and 1.52x P/B. On the latest trading day, large-lot money was a net seller of roughly $1.86m. The next question is whether the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion feeds through into revenue expectations, and how oil prices and macro data reshape the valuation view.
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