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On Monday, Stifel Canada adjusted its share value goal for Peyto Exploration & Growth Corp. (PEY:CN) (OTC: PEYUF), lifting it to C$16.50 from the earlier C$16.00. The agency continues to advocate a Purchase score for the inventory. This revision follows Peyto’s launch of its fourth-quarter and full-year monetary outcomes, which had been introduced after the market closed on Thursday.
Peyto’s fourth-quarter funds from operations (FFO) amounted to C$200 million, or C$1.05 per share, surpassing the consensus estimate of C$0.99 per share and Stifel Canada’s personal forecast of C$188 million, or C$0.98 per share. The corporate’s year-end web debt stood at C$1,363 million, aligning with consensus expectations.
The corporate had beforehand disclosed key monetary and operational particulars, together with its 2023 capital expenditure plans amounting to C$413 million, fourth-quarter manufacturing figures, working netback, year-end reserves, and an replace on the 2024 steering in its press launch on February 15, in addition to in latest month-to-month studies.
Stifel Canada’s Core 2P Web Asset Worth (NAV) estimate for Peyto has skilled a slight lower and is now set at C$22.92 per diluted share, based mostly on strip pricing. The agency has additionally modified its 2024 and 2025 FFO estimates, with a rise of 1.6% and 0.3%, respectively, attributable to changes in curiosity bills.
The rationale behind the elevated value goal is attributed to the next goal a number of, now set at 10.2 instances the 2025 estimated enterprise worth to un-hedged free money movement earlier than curiosity, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EV/unhedged FCFF), which means a a number of of 5.3 instances the 2025 estimated EV/unhedged debt-adjusted money movement (DACF), utilizing strip pricing because the reference.
Stifel Canada reaffirms its optimistic stance on Peyto, mirrored within the maintained Purchase score and the uplifted inventory value goal.
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