RE: Malcolm Graham Wood - Oklahoma assets alone worth $800M15 Aug 2024 22:18
In the recent transactions column the Oaktree acquisition has closed and the Crescent Pass deal is progressing and both tick those boxes of being bought on low multiples and are highly accretive adding even more long term value to DEC. The company has led the way in top of sector margins, in this report it is 50% but cash margins are over 50% for all of the last 7 years and that is across many cycles in what is a volatile natural gas market.
Indeed, DEC leads its peers in Free Cash Flow conversion with 11x the peer group average and is a talented and efficient hedger with a team of traders who have for example hedged its 2024 output at some 40% above the NYMEX strip.
The company put a slide in the presentation which I strongly advise looking at as it confirms what I have been saying for years that there is so much embedded value in the undeveloped acreage in the portfolio that they can sell parts of it, when bid for at very profitable rates. The company are therefore buying high quality acreage when offered at reasonable prices and trading other interests, the acreage has a see through value which in Oklahoma for example of some $800m on its own.