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Hunting - Shares hit by large downgrade

November 2015

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  • Epic Code:
  • HTG
  • Price:
  • 446p
The de-rating in Hunting’s share price has been more savage than we expected and the shares are now behaving like a geared option on oil price movements. A 56% decline in US oil rig count on the back of a 46% decline in West Texas crude prices provides the backdrop for poor interims, with turnover down 30% to US$463.6m and pretax profit falling 80% to US$20.4m (eps: 8.4 cents). However, net debt, which rose from US$131m to US$167m, mainly due to US$50.8m capital investment, is still relatively low, with gearing (net debt as percentage of shareholders funds) just 12%.Its well construction division, which supplies steel locking threads to connect sections of steel together, saw turnover fall 31% to US$125.5m while profit declin ...

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