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Monday, July 31, 2017

Stock Idea…Geodrill Ltd



Stock Idea…Geodrill Ltd

Symbol : GEO
Exchange: TSX
Market Cap : 94 Million
Revenue : 76 Million
Three Year Revenue Growth : 25.4 %
Investment Type : Micro / Small Cap Value Turnaround
Price/Earnings : 12.0
Forward P/E : 3.8
Price/Book : 1.3
Price/Sales : 0.9
Price/Cash Flow : 6.2
Price : 1.98
Investment Stem : Cheap Small Caps Screen

Geodrill Ltd is a exploration drilling company. It is engaged in providing exploration and development drilling services to mining companies with exploration, development and production operations in West Africa and the African Copperbelt. 

The Company operates a fleet of Multi-Purpose, Core, Air-core and Grade Control drill rigs. The Company's geographic segments include Ghana and Outside Ghana. The multi-purpose rigs can perform both reverse circulation (RC) and diamond core (Core) drilling and can switch from one to the other. Multi-purpose rigs provide clients with RC drilling and the depth of Core drilling without the need to have two different drill rigs on site. Its drilling services also include water borehole and directional drilling. The Company's products include EDM 2000 multi-purpose, Sandvik DE 820 multi-purpose, Sandvik DE 810 multi-purpose, Sandvik DE 710 core, Austex X350 RC/Grade Control and Austex X300 Air-core. Its rigs and support equipment also include a fleet of boosters and auxiliary compressors. The Company has a fleet of approximately 40 drill rigs operating in Africa. It has operations in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Zambia.

Established in 1998, Geodrill is a leading exploration drilling company with a fleet of 56 drill rigs operating in Africa. The Company has operations is Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, and recently added Zambia.
 
Cash flow positive drilling company that serves the capital intensive gold mining industry in Africa. Its not a mining company but a drilling company that serves the mining sector. Customers include Newmont, Kinross, Centamin, Asanko, Endeavour Mining, Perseus and Semafo. Has very little debt. Weathered the bear market in the precious metals industry quite well. The company managed to keep increasing their number of meters drilled despite the down turn in that sector. Now their operational numbers are steadily improving as business is rebounding.

The dreaded metrics from Morningstar…


The company’s website…


This is another company I ran across in my scan of the Canadian market on July 8th of this year. It is not only operational cash flow positive but is producing free cash flow. It has a cash return of 3.9…If the market does correct in the next few months as I suspect it will, Gold related stocks like this one could very well move in the opposite direction. It could be a good ‘non-correlated’ stock to hold in an investment portfolio.

Again this isn't a stock recommendation, it is just an investment idea. Be sure to check things out for yourself. Remember this blog is a diary to myself where I can formulate my ideas and check back in on them at a later date.








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