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Diversified Energy Company - Announces US$210m acquisition in East Texas

October 2022

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  • Epic Code:
  • DEC
  • Price:
  • 130p
Diversified Energy (DEC) purchases multiple portfolios of mature, low risk gas wells in the US, where it uses technology to wring out improved production performance. While not as dramatic as the energy spikes in the UK, the Henry Hub gas prices in the US have nevertheless risen from around US$3 / MMBTU (that’s one million British Thermal units) to over US$8 (down from a high of US$10) and while DEC is obliged to hedge forward because of the debt it has taken on, it will eventually benefit should prices stay elevated, which largely explains the shares briefly spiking to a high of 142p. Meanwhile, DEC is also a generous dividend payer; the latest quarterly payout was 4.2 US cents (3.7p), with sterling weakness giving shareholders more ban ...

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