In challenging times for oil, investors drill deep into Saudi Aramco – Arab News

In challenging times for oil, investors drill deep into Saudi Aramco – Arab News

Aramco has the financial and industrial resources to equip it for a lengthy battle for market share.. Four, Aramco is conscious of its new status as a public company and is committed to keeping its shareholders happy.. The shares will always to some degree reflect price volatility in the global oil markets, as they have done in recent days, but public companies have to accept the verdict of the stock markets.. Aramco made clear to the analysts that it would stick by its pledge to pay $75 billion per year, the biggest dividend paid by any public company.. Nasser made clear that the company is committed to maintaining and even improving its status as one of the "cleanest" oil companies, with very low levels of carbon intensity and methane emissions.. Journalists were not allowed to pose questions during the hour-long call, but the market verdict will soon be apparent.. The analysts who took part in the call will go away and produce reports based on what they heard in response to their questions, so in the next few days we will see what they made of it all..