GTE Investment Analysis Report & Stock Research, Gran Tierra Energy, Inc.

Gran Tierra Energy, Incorporated (GTE)

GTE Stock Report

2-Year Price History

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AMEX:GTE
$5.95
(3/12 6:40PM)
+0.8%
Open$5.95 Mkt Cap$1.4 Billion
High$6.02 52Wk High$6.16
Low$5.89 52Wk Low$2.27
Volume695,704 Avg Vol 10D1.2 Million

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GTE Revenue

As a value investing shop, we are interested in seeing how GTE's revenues measure up against past performances. One easily understandable way of doing that is to compare Price to Sales per share levels over a given time frame. Assuming it is available, Ockham prefers to look at ten years of history (for this stock there are 6 years of history available) and we weigh recent years more heavily. This allows us to find weighted average historical high and low Price to Sales ratios, which give us a better idea of the stock's current underlying value. Using this method, we have established a high range for Price to Sales of 18.25x and the low end of the range at 4.72x.

With respect to these historically rational metrics, notice that the current Price to Sales per share ratio for GTE of 5.17x is well below its normal historic Price to Sales levels. At a price of $5.95, GTE is 55% below where we would expect to see it. Clearly, this stock looks undervalued compared to historical levels, at least on a Price to Sales basis. This will positively affect our analysis because it is rare to find a stock this far below historical norms, and we would expect some price appreciation to bring this metric back towards a more normal range.

GTE Cash Earnings

When there is not enough positive Cash Earnings history available for a company, we at Ockham Research can find it quite difficult to actually rate their ability to generate cash. Such is the case with GTE. When a company has current positive cash earnings but not enough years of history to compare it to, we find the correlation of cash earnings to valuation significantly hindered. So with GTE, we will have to wait to see if there are a few more cycles of positive Cash Earnings numbers before we will be confident in our Cash Earnings analysis.

GTE Dividends

A strong dividend payment history is looked upon as a favorable characteristic on a company’s future and potentially can receive a positive Ockham rating. That being said, we don't require dividend payments for company's whose management has elected to forgo them entirely. As of the time of this report, our data provider does not have historical data for GTE. Therefore, we are not utilizing the dividends portion in our study. So, we do not know whether GTE currently pays a dividend at present or not, we have an "expected dividend" payment listed in key fundamentals but cannot varify it.

Peer Comparison

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Gran Tierra Energy, Inc. Industry Grouping

(3/12/2010)
Company Ticker Market Cap (Ml) Latest
Price
Price/Cash Earnings Price/Sales 5-Yr. Rev.
Growth Rate
5-Yr.
Avg. ROE.
Current 10-Yr. Range* Current 10-Yr. Range*
Peer Company Averages (not including GTE) 52.57 2.95 » 65.72 3.39 0.86 » 8.30 19.70% 15.29%
*10 year range does not include current year values
Frontier Oil Corp. FTO $1.5 Billion $14.17 128.82 1.25 » 167.27 0.35 0.09 » 0.99 8.20% 33.26%
Copano Energy, LLC CPNO $1.4 Billion $24.19 16.57 4.48 » 24.60 1.71 0.31 » 2.26 13.38% 8.00%
Key Energy Services, Inc. KEG $1.4 Billion $11.00 91.67 1.68 » 73.69 1.28 0.22 » 1.84 1.78% 12.06%
Gran Tierra Energy, Inc. GTE $1.4 Billion $5.95 9.02 2.99 » 269.00 5.17 1.69 » 70.75 n/a 0.86%
Arena Resources, Inc. ARD $1.3 Billion $33.12 15.85 5.93 » 38.32 10.19 3.22 » 31.25 71.61% 14.86%
Swift Energy Company SFY $1.3 Billion $33.55 9.93 1.43 » 24.71 3.40 0.49 » 5.15 3.54% 8.26%
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Key Fundamentals

GTE - Gran Tierra Energy, Incorporated Fundamentals
Price (3/12 6:40PM) $5.95
Volume (3/12 6:40PM) 695,704
Last Close Price $5.90
10 Day Average Volume 1.2 Million
13 Week Price Range $4.58 - $6.16
52 Week Price Range $2.27 - $6.16
LTM Revenue $262.6 Million
 
Shares Outstanding (12/2009) 227.4 Million
Market Capitalization $1.4 Billion
Shares Held By Institutions 71.4 Million
Institutional Holders 113
% Shares Held By Institutions 33.80%
Earnings Per Share (EPS) $0.05
P/E Ratio 119.00
Book Value Per Share $3.59
 
Gross Margin 84.50%
Annual Dividend 0.00
Dividend Yield 0.00%
Beta 0.81
Fiscal Year Ends December

About Gran Tierra Energy, Inc.

Gran Tierra Energy, Incorporated is considered to operate in the Basic Materials sector. They specifically operate in the Independent Oil & Gas business segment contained within the Energy industry.

An independent international energy company engaged in oil and gas acquisition, exploration, development and production.