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Phoenix Energy ServicesPHX.TOBUYApr 25, 2008Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 19, 2026. Market Open.
(A Top Pick March 4/15. Down 67.75%.) Last year was horrific for energy. He was being very defensive, and this one had the ability to stay solvent. He got stopped out. It looks like it is probably time now, from a cost-benefit, that you could really get some leverage buying one of the service companies with a 1-2 year outlook.
A horizontal drilling company. Have some great technology for the drilling side, which is really their key business. Trades at 18X earnings and pays a yield of 5.35%. Their technology allows them to get data back to the main place where they can analyse and see where the drilling is all going. Management is doing all the right things.
A high quality company that has been beaten up but has low fixed costs and high variable costs, so they can get through this and come out the other side. Directional driller. The problem is with the oil price and efficiencies in drilling on shale, he might like the oil price to come back to $80, but what if it is $65-$70. The one thing he can figure on is that wells are going to get drilled, so you will need drilling at some point.
Directional drilling is very interesting because we are going more towards pad drilling. However, you have to think about the placement of those vertical sections of the horizontal wells, which have to be distinct from each other. Valuation on this company seems to be reasonably okay. He tends to like this company. Dividend yield of over 5%.
8.5% yield. He advises not to buy based just on yield. He does not have fundamentals, but it is forming a strong base, which is positive. It formed a rally and then dropped back down again. This is not good and it means the rally fizzled. If you are going to buy it, use $8 as an entry level and then maybe on more positive news it will pop back up.