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The Ultimate American Real Estate Play... We're Up 91% And Still Surging
Written by Sierra Hancock Subject: EnergyLast summer, I told Growth Stock Wire readers about a new oil and gas field in south Texas called the Eagle Ford Shale.
I told you people were going to get rich investing there. Brand new
drill rigs dotted the landscape. Jaded Texas oilmen were giddy with
excitement... This was the biggest U.S. discovery in years.
At the same time, I recommended an "expensive" little oil company to readers of the S&A Resource Report.
I put common valuations like price-to-cash flow and price-to-earnings
in the back seat. You see, in an oil boom, you want acreage. We bought a
small, Eagle Ford oil company called Magnum Hunter Resources (MHR).
Back in July, Magnum Hunter was a tiny, just a $262 million market
cap. It held 11.3 million barrels of reserves, 70% was oil. It produced
1,750 barrels per day. The company had just $4 million in cash and $56.7
million in debt.
At that time, Magnum Hunter wasn't cheap. It traded at 238 times
operating cash flow... But I wasn't worried about that metric. That's
because it owned over 21,000 acres of Eagle Ford. In other oil and gas
fields, real estate investors made more money than the producers. The
value of hot oil and gas fields rose far faster than the price of oil and gas.
In July, we paid about $12,000 an acre for Magnum Hunter's Eagle Ford acreage. Then Eagle Ford acreage prices soared...
In November, some companies sold out for $30,000 per acre. Magnum Hunter's shares soared in value... thanks to its Eagle Ford acreage.
Here's an eight-month chart of Magnum Hunter:
As you can see, shares of the company have rocketed up 91% since
July 2010. That's a huge gain in just six months. It also reflects the
surging value of its Eagle Ford acreage.
I'm not writing this to encourage you to rush out and buy Magnum
Hunter shares. While this is a great stock, the more important point is
to keep your eyes peeled for companies with large land positions in hot
oil and gas areas like the Eagle Ford.
If you're looking to make huge gains in commodities over the coming
years, don't ignore a company just because it looks expensive. You see,
while most real estate and housing markets are dead, you can still make
a fortune in real estate. You just have to know this commodity
secret... and know where to look.
Good Investing,
Matt Badiali
P.S. I just told my S&A Resource Report readers how to
buy one of the world's ultimate hoards of valuable oil and gas assets
for a dirt-cheap price. This stock is safe, shareholder-friendly, and
pays an inflation-proof dividend. Its vast land portfolio could
skyrocket in value in the coming years. To learn more about this idea,
make sure to read my latest issue. You can learn more about coming on
board as a subscriber by clicking here.
Further Reading:
Matt has written multiple times about the
investment opportunities in oil companies due to the Eagle Ford shale in
south Texas. "One of the oilmen I rode with said the Eagle Ford will
easily be the biggest discovery of his more than 30-year career," he
wrote, "and maybe the largest in the history of the U.S. oil industry."
Read more here and here.
More than 2,500 junior miners trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange,
and if you're not careful, you might as well be throwing darts while
blindfolded. Fortunately, Matt has "developed a simple 'backdoor' way to
get in on huge gold discoveries with plenty of upside and a lot less
risk." Find out Matt's system here: One Simple Strategy for 3,000% Gains.
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