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Petrowest CorpPRW.TOCOMMENTApr 07, 2015Stock 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.
She tends to shy away from talking too much about small caps, especially in a cyclical cycle and particularly in energy. Likes management very much, but there is a slowdown going on in Western Canada. The big focus on this company was the LNG buildout, but LNG prices in Asia have come off quite a bit. Some of the big projects in Western Canada have been delayed in terms of final investment decisions. There was supposed to be a lot of activity related to Site C, the biggest infrastructure project in Canada to be approved in a really long time. There has been a slowdown in the oil sands and a lot of the companies there are looking for work, so they have come over to BC and are bidding the Site C project, so margins are probably not going to be as compelling as they would have been 6 months ago. This company is trading below cost of equipment, so it is a Value Buy down here.