Morningstar's Paul Justice sees the issues facing BP as being industrywide and that investors should look at smaller oil explorers and natural gas plays instead of buying a basket of oil majors.
Morningstar's Eric Chenoweth on the factors driving BP's difficult and uncertain containment efforts, stock fair value, and dividend security, plus an alternative for current BP shareholders.
Morningstar StockInvestor editor Paul Larson says the potential downside is capped for this coastal Florida landowner, while the upside is big at current stock prices.
Bank of America Corp. led decliners in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after reporting profit dropped 63 percent, hurt by shrinking revenue and more costs from cleaning up bad mortgages.