Last year, British multinational oil & gas giant, Shell Plc (NYSE:SHEL) threatened to delist from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Shell CEO Wael Sawan told Bloomberg that the company is grossly undervalued in London due to shareholder apathy to the oil and gas sector. Sawan also expressed deep frustration by investors’ under-appreciation of the financial performance of the company, as well as the British government’s over-taxation of its profits. Sawan vowed to “look at all options”, including switching the group’s listing to New York in a bid to close the valuation gap with American Big Oil companies Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) and Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX). A U.S. listing might make even more sense now that Trump is in office thanks to his pro-fossil fuel policies.
