Bellatrix (BXE) - a gas E&P with a new management
Date of analysis: 29/12/2017 Price: CAD 2,17$ Nb of shares: 49 378 026 M (57,21M diluted but exercise price are between CAD 3,85 and CAD 50) Market cap: CAD 107,15M$ Net Debt: CAD 400M$ EV: 400+107,2 = CAD 507,2M$ Operations I got the idea of studying this company thanks to this forum message . Bellatrix is a Canadian gas producer with assets mainly in Alberta. A new president and CEO, and CFO have been appointed at the beginning of 2017. This management wants to focus on growing production, and reduce costs while divesting non strategic assets (probably to finance growth and/or reduce debt). Under the previous management, there was a lot of value destruction due to acquisitions at high costs and no profitability at current low gas prices. For Q3 2017, here is a comparison of the cash costs between Bellatrix and Peyto (the local low cost producer with AAV): (en CAD$/mcfe) Peyto | BXE Royalty ...