Natural Resource Stocks
I have listed some stocks that are plays on rising commodity prices:
Diversified Natural Resources
- AAUK -
Anglo American, 14.3 P/E, 0.48 Db/Eq, 1.53 P/S, portfolio
includes coal, gold, platinum, diamonds, base metals, industrial
minerals, ferrous metals and forest products
- BHP -
BHP Billiton, 23.9 P/E, 1.32 P/S, portfolio includes aluminum,
copper, lead, zinc, silver, nickel, ferrochrome, coal, diamonds,
titanium, oil, and natural gas
- RTP
Gold
BENGF.ob
CAAUF.ob
CGCO.ob
CLHVF.ob
CUSIF.ob
HMY
Silver
- MNMM.ob -
- PAAS -
- WTZ -
Western Silver - no debt, claimed enterprise value is $0.22 per
ounce of silver equivalent reserve + resource - see page 20 of a
Protues report
of Western Silver
Agriculture
- FDP -
Fresh Del Monte Produce - produce grower and distributor - 6.45 P/E
- 0.64 P/S - while produce is not a commodity, it may be possible that
produce prices would rise along with sugar, coffee, grains, etc? Even if
this is a not a strict commodity play, it sure looks like a good value
play.
- BG -
Bunge Limited - agribusiness, includes soybean origination - 14 P/E
excluding special items - 0.16 price/sales - this is a play on soybean
prices rising
- CRESY
Cresud Inc. - Argentine land holder and producer of grains,
cattle and milk - not profitable - 4 prices/sales - owns 1 millions acres
of land in Argentina, 107 million market cap = $107/acre land if you look
at company as pure real estate play. The catalyst would be rising grain
and cattle prices leading to increased demand for farmable land. Marc
Faber likes this company. I'm not as sure because
I don't know how to value Argentine land and because of the high
price/sales ratio.
Uranium
CCJ
Oil and Gas
- NXY - Nexen Inc - 5.5 P/E, 0.73 Db/Eq, 1.18 P/S, Canada
based global oil explorer and producer. Strong revenue and earnings growth.
- PKN
- PTR - Petrochina - 9.28 P/E, 0.26 Db/Eq - oil exploration
and production
in china, also a natural resource play - warren buffet recently
purchased a large stake in this company.
- TNT - AO Tatneft - 6.0 P/E, 0.32 Db/Eq, 0.42 P/S, Russian
oil producer, extremely large reserves/market cap ratio. Very heavily
discounted b/c of Russian political risk.