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Hunting

April 2012

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Shares in last month's main write-up, Hunting, have enjoyed a terrific run, quickly rising almost Â£2 after results beat consensus forecasts. For the year to last December pretax profit jumped 80% to Â£81m with eps rising 70% to 38.7p. The two largest divisions drove this with well completion increasing profits 77% to Â£41.2m, while well construction achieved a three-fold gain in profit from Â£9.5m to Â£28.5m with operating margin soaring from 9% to 15%. Crucially, Hunting's outlook is still buoyant; high oil prices are stimulating demand for shale drilling with US rig count data (a lead indicator of activity) from Baker Hughes showing 1989 active rigs in the US, an increase of 16% year-on-year. Barclays Capital has ...

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