While big stock sales and IPOs stagnate, energy investors are making money

With stock indexes falling, interest rates rising, and inflation heating up, it’s nearly impossible for companies or investors to sell large volumes of stocks or list at the prices they want. Unless you’re in an energetic state where business is booming.

EnerVest Ltd., a Houston-based private equity firm focused on energy investments, said it sold 28.4 million shares of the company. Magnolia Oil & Gas raked in $661 million in proceeds, including $257 million last month. Timely IPO of natural gas company Energy Acceleration one of the best performing IPOs this year, has raised the net worth of the oil magnate and its founder George Kaiser more than 1 billion dollars.