The Dividend Cafe
The Dividend Cafe
The Bahnsen Group
Energy Investing with or without Iran
19 minutes Posted Apr 2, 2026 at 3:52 pm.
Welcome and holiday timing
Energy headlines and market volatility
Energy transformed drives growth
WTI spike and supply shock
Why not trade the chart
Physical and human energy
Supply plus wise transformation
Energy ecosystem and data centers
S&P 500 energy underweight
War questions miss the point
How energy companies make money
Beyond oil and gas thesis
Easter sign off
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This week’s Dividend Cafe is released Thursday ahead of the Good Friday market holiday and addresses market volatility driven by a supply shock and geopolitical turmoil around Iran, including swings in WTI crude from the 60s to above $109 amid expectations around the President’s speech and fears of Strait of Hormuz disruption. David argues these headline-driven price moves should not be the basis for energy investing; instead, energy is foundational to economic growth—“energy transformed”—with both physical and human (metaphysical) components that create goods, services, profits, and prosperity. Bahnsen contends investors were underweight energy, noting energy’s very low share of S&P 500 capitalization despite its broad, evergreen economic importance and recent sector gains. The energy thesis is positioned as decades-long, extending beyond oil and gas to the wider energy ecosystem and infrastructure, including electricity needs tied to data centers.
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