4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Harvest Natural Resources
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, oil and natural gas producer Harvest Natural Resources (NYS: HNR) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Harvest Natural's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Harvest Natural facts
Headquarters (founded) | Houston, Texas (1988) |
Market Cap | $350.3 million |
Industry | Oil and gas exploration and production |
Trailing-12-Month EBITDA | ($87.0 million) |
Management | CEO James Edmiston (since 2005) |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 2.7% |
Cash/Debt | $28.8 million / $15.6 million |
Competitors | Dana Petroleum |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 95% of the 511 members who have rated Harvest Natural believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last month, one of those Fools, All-Star TMFDeej, tapped the stock as a particularly juicy, but speculative, opportunity:
I don't usually engage in [merger arbitrage] situations here in CAPS or in real life, but [Harvest Natural] is selling a huge chunk of [Venezuela assets] and if the deal goes through (which is by no means a certainty) the stock will likely pop to $12 to $13 per share. If not, ouch. The spread here is massive enough to play in CAPS.
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