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Freehold Royalties Ltd T.FRU

Alternate Symbol(s):  FRHLF

Freehold Royalties Ltd. is a Canada-based royalty company. The Company manages non-government portfolios of oil and natural gas royalties in Canada with an expanding land base in the United States. Its primary focus is to acquire and actively manage royalties, while providing a lower risk income vehicle for its shareholders. Its total land holdings encompass approximately 6.2 million gross acres in Canada. It has royalty interests in more than 19,000 producing wells and almost 400 units spanning five provinces and eight states and receives royalty income from over 360 industry operators throughout North America. It has two geographical segments: Canada, which includes exploration and evaluation assets and the petroleum and natural gas interests in Western Canada, and US includes petroleum and natural gas interests primarily held in the Permian (Midland and Delaware), Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Bakken basins largely located in the states of Texas, Louisiana, and North Dakota.


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Comment by energeeon Apr 06, 2020 12:13pm
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Post# 30883212

RE:PSK vs. FRU

RE:PSK vs. FRUMr. T.

FRU has debt and PSK does not. FRU has ventured in the USA and PSK has expanded into the Montney in BC. Like th latter vs the former. Both look similar as you say, (SK Viking, Clearwater play) but PSK has more girth.

FRU had LT debt of $109MM at YE 2019. They are 86% oil weighted and 21% owned by CN pension fund so probably not going to be in play. With the oil price collapse, their annual dividend of $0.63 share is disproportionately high (19% yield) and likely under the microscope now. On slide 10 of their Winter 2020 slide deck, at $40 CDN oil price, free cash flow and current dividend match so some sustainability risk there. Also cash admin costs (including $1.00 boe for interest expense) of $5.25 boe are high.

FRU is about 50% of the size (by production) of PSK.

PSK showed YE 2019 debt of only $7.8MM and has recently reduced their div by 70% from $0.78 annually to $0.24 annually. Seems the market anticipated that.  PSK still carries $631MM in goodwill on the balance sheet, which seems odd. Cash and non-cash admin costs were $2.98 boe in 2019.

Both will be challenged to see new drills in the next few quarters. JMO
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