Topic: Growth Stocks

Hi Pat: Can you please provide your opinion on Divergent Energy Services (DVG)? Thanks.

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A: Divergent Energy Services Corp., $0.23, symbol DVG on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 96.7 million; Market cap: $21.3 million; www.divergentenergyservices.com), makes pumps for oil and natural gas exploration companies. Divergent changed its name from Canadian Oilfield Solutions Corp. in June 2014. The company’s pumps use a licensed technology that applies alternating electric current to magnets in order to drive a piston. As a result, Divergent’s products have fewer moving parts than conventional pumps. The company believes that this makes them cheaper to operate and maintain. It pays a Chinese company, Han’s Motor, for the right to use the technology. While the pumps are in use by oil firms in China, Divergent is the first to market them in North America. In the three months ended March 31, 2016, the company’s revenue jumped 55.0%, to $2.1 million from $1.4 million a year earlier. That was due to a big order in the U.S. Divergent’s losses dropped to $0.02 a share (or a total of $2.2…