Bellatrix Exploration Ltd.BXE.TOCOMMENTNov 06, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Nov 08, 2019. Market Open.
Debt concerns? BXE took bankruptcy protection when debt became too much. There is no equity value in it any longer. Companies that have debt that matures in 2020 or 2021 will have issues. He sees no issues with BIR or TVE on this topic. The new Federal relief program for large companies may be difficult for companies to accept as it has provisions for up to 15% of ownership being made available in warrants to the government.
They are more levered towards natural gas. It all comes down to being able to live with the volatility. Anything related to Montney natural gas is betting on LNG, which may not come quickly enough. He would stay away.
Has been a Top Pick previously, but doesn't own it currently. Great track record of growing production to the tune of 30% a year on a production per share basis. Has done it on fairly modest leverage levels. A mix between oil and gas. Struck some very novel joint venture deals with a number of counterparties that has taken a long life resource and accelerated some of the future value to the current day. The issue he has is that they have become a victim of their own success. The tremendous growth rates they have had have now caused some fairly serious facility constraints. There are a number of pieces to the pie in terms of gas plants that are getting built and compression that is getting added. You can probably count on a certain amount of uncertainty about what the next 2 or 3 quarters are going to look like until the middle of 2015 before those issues are behind them.