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Petrowest CorpPRW.TOTOP PICKJul 16, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
Owned this in the past and was really disappointed with them. They have the SiteC contract, which should give them great cash flow ability, but they keep having delays which has affected their cash flow, which has affected their covenants, and are now having a lot of troubles with their balance sheet. Longer-term, they should have a ton of work both from the SiteC project as well as from the recovery in the oil activity in Western Canada.
It has come off because they are doing a lot of work on site ‘C’ in BC. There were weather related issues causing delays and hitting margins. If you price contracts too low you don’t make money. It is probably a half decent entry point here. You want to watch the operation quarter by quarter and see that they can make money off them.
Any strength at all in any kind of crude move, these little juniors could go. While falling from $1.50 all the way down to below $0.40, it was straight down. Now he is seeing, even in the weak oil state that we have, it is starting to consolidate. The little spike showing in the chart may indicate the stock is on the move. He would have no trouble buying this.
A construction company that has a lot of heavy machinery and very active in producing gravel. They suffered from being Alberta focused. Thinks you should be cautious on this. Nothing against the company, it’s just that the environment is so poor right now. What could skate them onside is LNG, which looks real. Not sure that LNG provides enough work to compensate.
Just recently got a huge contract for the Site C project for BC Hydro. It provides a lot of visibility in terms of EBITDA growth for the next few years. The company looks interesting and she is going to be meeting with them shortly. She doesn’t look at this as an oil/gas company per se. They do have some infrastructure and construction capabilities that flow into the oil/gas space which makes it interesting.
Have a big presence up in NW BC with a ton of equipment in the region all the way out to the coast. Have things that can grade roads and devices that can mulch the trees. Have a good core business going. There is a big damn project that BC Hydro is working on. This gives you 2 big capital intensive projects unfolding, LNG and the Site C Dam. This company is right in the middle of all that. They will probably do North of 50 million EBITDA next year. He could see the stock going well north of $2.