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Hi Pat: Could I have your opinion on Niko Resources? Thanks.

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Niko Resources, $92.68, symbol NKO on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 51.1 million; Market cap: $4.7 billion; www.nikoresources.com), is a Calgary-based firm that produces and explores for natural gas and oil in India and Bangladesh. Niko also has exploration interests in Pakistan, Kurdistan, Indonesia, Thailand and off the coast of Madagascar (an island east of Africa). About 95% of Niko’s production is natural gas. Niko owns a 10% interest in the D6 and D4 blocks in the Krishna-Godavari and Bengal Basins, off the coast of India. It also owns a 10% stake in the NEC 25 block, in the Orissa basin. In Bangladesh, it holds 60% of the Block 9 field. The company gets about 79% of its revenue from the D6 block. The remaining 29% comes from the Block 9 field. In the three months ended December 31, 2010, Niko’s cash flow per share rose slightly, to $1.37 from $1.36 a year earlier. Oil and natural-gas sales rose 22.0%, to $111.9 million from…