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BONAVISTA ENERGY $12.54 – Toronto symbol BNP

BONAVISTA ENERGY $12.54 (Toronto symbol BNP; Shares outstanding: 201.9 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 6.7%; www.bonavistaenergy.com) explores for oil and natural gas in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Its production is 67% gas and 33% oil.

In the three months ended June 30, 2014, Bonavista’s cash flow per share gained 6.3%, to $0.67 from $0.63 a year earlier. Production rose just 2.4%, to 74,272 barrels of oil equivalent a day from 72,554. However, that’s because Bonavista sold 2,700 barrels a day of heavy-oil production, which is less of a focus for the company. Bonavista’s realized gas price increased 17.9%, to an average of $4.29 per thousand cubic feet from $3.64. Oil prices fell 1.3%, to $79.34 a barrel from $80.42.

Bonavista plans to spend $580 million to $600 million on exploration and development in 2014. Its plans include drilling 130 to 135 wells, which will let it raise its production to as high as 86,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day at the end of 2014. For all of 2013, Bonavista spent $460 million to drill 126 wells.

The company’s shares yield a high 6.7%. Bonavista pays out just 31% of its cash flow as dividends.

The stock trades at 4.2 times Bonavista’s forecast 2014 cash flow of $3.00 a share. The company’s long-term debt of $1.0 billion is a reasonable 35.7% of its $2.8-billion market cap.

Bonavista Energy Corp. is a buy.

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