Stock price when the opinion was issued
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.
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.
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.
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.
Has pulled back an awful lot. Was quite surprised at how much it had pulled back. Has a large exposure to energy, but the majority of their exposure is actually on natural gas, not oil. There are a lot of catalysts coming. Putting together another great quarter and are still super busy. Still seeing lots of gravel crushing, road construction and well sites preps being done. The catalyst for them is the Site C Hydro dam where preliminary work is expected to be announced very soon. They are also part of the bidding group for the main project. Stock sold off quite a bit when Petronos announced they were delaying their decision on the LNG project into 2015. He was a little surprised with this since they had leased 10 floors of office space in Calgary, close to 400,000 ft.². He wonders if they are just playing a little bit of hardball with the BC and federal governments. Really likes this one here.