RE: Cannacord 65p target price12 Feb 2024 11:14
Over the past year, Canaccord said Star has turned around "a declining UK production profile" for the first time in many years, through a combination of greater focus on incremental low-cost enhancements to well performance and significantly improved surface facilities efficiencies and uptime.
"That has clearly borne fruit over the past 12+ months, and we think there is plenty of scope to maintain that elevated performance at least over the next few years. That is important because while the company sees longer-term growth through its geothermal businesses, it is the UK conventional hydrocarbons that provide the backbone of cashflow in the nearer-term," said Canaccord.
The Canadian bank thinks the progress made by Star in the UK and in Croatia was "substantial", and certainly not reflected in its recent market performance.