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Why would you have an interest in a dog like this?
Gidday Whiskers: until you pointed it out, I didn't connect the cliche I used to real dogs.Pardon the pun, but coming from a 'dog' lover, that's gotta be saying something (with emphasis) about your feelings for BPT. I concur. It has caused me some grief in the past.
Btw, I don't hold any oil stocks atm. I just think oil has come back up too high to be sustainable in the longer term, what with all the prospects of carbon taxes, it may have just resusated the alternative fuel industry again.
Nero, most people invest in companies in order to make money.I wouldn't exactly call this company a dog.
It is one of the top 5 oil producers with a good balance sheet. It is running a sustainable profitable business.
People's perception of it is not great hence the low share price. The selling of the CSG assets hurt it and a lot of its interests are overseas which people don't care for.
If people want to invest in it then I don't see the need to criticise or judge. It's more sound and safer than many listed ASX 300 companies.
When popular opinion is nearly unanimous, contrary thinking tends to be most profitable. The reason is that once the crowd takes a position, it creates a short- term, self- fulfilling prophecy.
But when a change occurs, everyone seems to change his mind at once.
The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon
It has a div in Dec but 1% yeild at CURRENT price - wouldnt have liked to have bought in any higher!
You can have the nicest fundamentals in the world but if the market doesn't like the company for whatever reason, you are not going to make money.
There are undoubtedly worse companies out there, but my point was that there are many better ones, that's all. Don't feel hurt!
nunthewiser ... I have bought in as a longer term investor ... I can't exactly identify a specific reason other than BPT is producing, making money, not debit ridden and I think in the next few years energy producing stocks are going to flourish as we have a thirst esp: for petroleum. Alternative energies will be popular and slower become more normalised - but I think we are still a fair bit away from that.
Why all this talk about "little company"?
The Beach has one billion and sixty-six million shares on issue! - and no doubt more to come from reinvestment of the final dividend, payable, finally in December. We'll need a big increase in future profits to make any impact across that giant number.
Which may account for the SP's tendency to trade in a tight channel.
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