3 Oil & Gas Stocks Undervalued By EPS Trends

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Interested in finding undervalued stocks in the oil & gas sector? For ideas on where to look, we ran a screen you might be interested in.

We screened the oil & gas sector for stocks that appear undervalued relative to EPS trends. Based on the theoretical assumption that if P/E is equal to a constant K, growth in EPS estimates should be matched by proportionate growth in price. When they don't match up, a mispricing may have occurred. We screened for those exhibiting this mismatch between changes in EPS estimate and price.

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Do you think these stocks should be trading higher? Use this list as a starting point for your own analysis.

1. Bill Barrett Corp. (BBG): Engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and crude oil principally in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. Market cap at $868.14M, most recent closing price at $18.03. The EPS estimate for the company's current year increased from 0.08 to 0.09 over the last 30 days, an increase of 12.5%. This increase came during a time when the stock price changed by 0.77% (from 18.2 to 18.34 over the last 30 days).

2. Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (PWE): Engages in acquiring, exploring, developing, exploiting, and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and related assets in North America. Market cap at $5.27B, most recent closing price at $10.99. The EPS estimate for the company's current year increased from 0.46 to 0.52 over the last 30 days, an increase of 13.04%. This increase came during a time when the stock price changed by 1.62% (from 11.08 to 11.26 over the last 30 days).

3. Energy XXI (Bermuda) Limited (EXXI): Engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and operation of oil and natural gas properties onshore in Louisiana and Texas and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Market cap at $2.59B, most recent closing price at $32.69. The EPS estimate for the company's current year increased from 2.96 to 3.11 over the last 30 days, an increase of 5.07%. This increase came during a time when the stock price changed by 1.04% (from 32.69 to 33.03 over the last 30 days).

* EPS data sourced from Yahoo! Finance, all other data sourced from Finivz

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