3 Energy Stocks to Buy for an Oil Breakout

While stock prices continue to bounce around following their tumble earlier this year, crude oil is back near new highs. In fact, despite the stock market's super run in 2017, crude oil actually outperformed stocks starting in June. And it continues to do so here in April 2018.

That means investors have a choice during the current volatile environment for stocks. And that does not necessarily mean speculating in commodities. Energy stocks representing companies that explore, drill, produce and refine oil finally look positioned to lead the stock market to the upside.

How can this be? For years, the fundamentals of "black gold" were rather dour. It was fairly common to see headlines saying, "the world is