5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Petrobras Energia

• Report this Comment On August 28, 2009, at 10:17 AM, pondee619 wrote:

  "Make your voice heard on Motley Fool CAPS today. More than 135,000 investors are waiting to hear what you have to say."

  Brian:

  If CAPs is so important and SO many want to hear what you have to say, WHY do you continue to avoid playing YOUR "poised to" stocks therein?

  Are you still out there, Brian? Three months ago you said that creating a "poised to" CAPS player was a good idea. Are you as quick on acting on all the good ideas you come upon? Are you just lazy (posting the same article three/four times a day with no real comentary indicates this) or just full of it when you said such a player was a good idea?

  If anyone knows if Brian is still alive, please forward this to him.

  thanks:

• Report this Comment On August 29, 2009, at 11:40 AM, deltafox2 wrote:

  Well, at least this "poised to pop" article gives those interested the opportunity to discuss the company & stock.

  PZE is and has been a medium to moderate sell recommendation throughout according to "analyst's" views on all sites I know. Whatever the value of these may be, they will tend to discourage rather than encourage investors in relation to other oil-producing stocks with better ratings (most of them have). PZE is pretty volatile (much less volatile though many other stocks though), trading between $5.50 and maxing out at 7$ the 9 months. Petrobras Energia seems to be a reasonably well managed enterprise (holding), operating in a difficult and politically unstable "frontier state" Latin American country according to common consensus. I'd really like to hear the view of someone in Argentina what they think of this simplistic outside view.

  PZE Q2/09 results were much better than Q1 (substantial loss); the results for the rest of the year remain to be seen. If anything, it's probably a pretty speculative stock. Buying on lows (around 6$?) seems reasonably safe to me due to the low book value and substantial moat + it's been a dividend payer in the past, as most oil stocks. What's in the future? Who knows.

  Occasionally, research oracle (http://blogs.iirgroup.com/?s=pze) provides a brief report on PZE. However, anyone knowing a site providing research and discussion on PZE - please post here.

• Report this Comment On September 30, 2009, at 2:29 PM, QwertyHero wrote:

  Damn - This is the first time I have seen TMF call one right - up 180% today... why? I dunno...

• Report this Comment On September 30, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Seano67 wrote:

  Well, it's a little difficult to find news on this company, but this huge upward spike today is the result of a reverse split, which as of right now actually leaves the stock a few pennies down from its $6.40 closing price of yesterday.

• Report this Comment On September 30, 2009, at 11:39 PM, ikkyu2 wrote:

  It's nice to say that it's a reverse split, but no, actually it was not a reverse split.

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