Was für ein Tag! Nach meinem Beitrag gings noch auf 2,40 CAD runter und danach gabs ein riesen Intradayreversal. Volumen sehr hoch: 26,4 Mio. Aktien. Damit hatte ich nicht so schnell gerechnet.
Grüße
Hier noch der aktuelle Kommentar von Canaccord:
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the “Million Dollar Man” so may we introduce
you to the “Quarter Billion Dollar Man”. Today, a senior player of the
Falcon Oil and Gas story is suddenly gone from the scene, as Allan Laird has
resigned or been replaced or whatever you want to call it when you read
the news announcement from the company today.
Obviously, the market didn’t like the news and in the first bit of trading,
the stock was down as much as 70 cents or in other words, a quarter of a
billion dollars worth of asset value disappeared. Later in the day it recovered.
We track down Allan today, and he says simply that the travel was getting
to him, that he has to spend some more time with his family and that
they’ve got such a team that if anything should happen to anyone of the
players in Falcon, “it shouldn’t really matter anyway!” As of now he suggests,
he’s on sabbatical over the summer and hoping to get his health
back in order. That’s what he’s saying…
Excuse us, but we are going to read something into this. When you’ve
got two interesting characters like Marc Bruner and Allan Laird involved in
a story, how dare we suggest something might have happened between the
“Dynamic Duo”, but that’s what we suspect. These two, were the founders
of Ultra Petroleum and two of the key players and many people following
the Falcon story are hoping for a similar success story.
Just look at the volume today and it tells you how widely followed this
story is, not just in Alberta folks—this is from Bay Street to Wall Street to
London’s financial district. It’s one of the stories of the day. Does this big
Basin Centered Gas play work or not and I suspect by mid to late June
when they finally test some of the first wells on this play, we will get a
taste. Once again, the excitement about Basin Centered Gas is usually if
you get a couple of wells, that tells you, you’ve got hundreds if not thousands
more potential wells.
Which of course is the good news. It was Jim Letourneau of the Big
Picture Speculator and someone getting quite a reputation for following
unconventional gas plays, be it basin centered gas or coal bed methane,
that got us involved in this story, although we have followed Laird for
years. He told us recently that as the stock went up, he sold half and as it
went farther up he sold another half. Today as the stock cratered, he actually
nibbled on a few.
Well, we are a little more nervous than him and it seems every time we
check, there is ever more stock issued without yet, one successful well to
show for a market cap that was approaching almost a billion and a half
dollars. We suspect that if the well in June is not awesome, the market will
be more than a little disappointed.
We wish Allan Laird and his former teammates well, but we are gone!