Opinions
Alex Ruus
Cathedral Energy Services
CET-T
COMMENT
Dec 06, 2013
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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He holds this in the President’s portfolio. It sells now for half of what he paid for it, it had a near-death experience but they have recapitalized, gotten rid of their high debt, and he likes the management. It has a great balance sheet in this sector. He thinks it could double or triple from here.
Revenues have gone up 82% last year and they have a new line of credit. The rig count is rising and the payment per day has gone up dramatically. He thinks this could trade back into the double-digits. He doesn’t know where oil prices will go, but it seems reasonably priced. Yield 0%. (Analysts’ price target is $2.38 )
He paid a price higher than this stock’s current level but he thinks it is recovering. He likes current management. They eliminated their debt, but they might be on the verge of taking on some debt now. The company used to pay a dividend and he thinks they might reinstate it. He sees tremendous upside. The rising price of oil is good for Cathedral. A drag on their business is the difficulty in finding new employees and the likely higher cost of their wages.
There are 2 Canadian companies that are focused around directional drilling, this one and Phoenix (PCO-X). Over the long-term, both companies have done very well but in the last 5 years, Phoenix has seemed to out execute Cathedral. Before you invest in any energy/resource type company, you have to be looking at what is going on in resource pricing or resource activity. This current pullback could be a buying opportunity.