New here18 Nov 2014 09:24
Hi all, freely admit I am new to this forum and pretty much only took notice because of the news yesterday.
Whether this is cheap or not is an interesting discussion, not least because the long term trend on this company is down and has been for many years.
On the basis of H1 results, which while showing increased profitability also show a diminished cashflow, forced to conclude that this will be a clear long term short for the next few months. Oil prices will probably remain depressed, but not fall, for several months, which will make full year results quite poor.
The SONA deal will primarily be beneficial for operating cash reasons, and if gearing does manage to drop then the 2-3year prospects may be quite good. However, it will have to go some to beat the 5year trend, it will certainly need the price of oil to rally pretty hard.