Peak Discovery Capital Ltd V.PEC

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Chen Lin Jan. 17, 2013

The bum still posts elsewhere? LOL....
CL: Porto Energy Corp. (PEC:TSX.V) was probably my major loser in the energy portfolio last year. Porto is an example of my risk-taking. When George Soros closed his position of Porto at $0.07 last summer, I decided to take advantage of it and told my subscribers that I became one of the largest shareholders. My calculations at that time were if its ALC-1 well were successful, the stock would be a tenbagger. If not, it's still worth a lot of money. But the well was a failure. The stock is still trading at $0.06, so it's really verified my calculation. You can see the risk/reward was in my favor and, in the future, if this kind of situation arises, I would do it again. But right now, looking at a $0.06 stock, I think it's still very undervalued. I had a long discussion with management not long ago. As a large shareholder, I proposed to management to take a look at the current tax-loss carryforward situation. Porto spent over $100M in Portugal and has over $100M in loss carryforward in Portugal. That could be worth a lot of money to its partner, like Galp Energia, which is a $10 billion Portuguese national oil company. Galp can take advantage of that loss and could translate easily to $0.20–0.30 per share. Management told me that they would take that into consideration and they are still in the middle of discussions with Porto to drill two or three wells this year. Those wells will be critical to the company's future. The silver lining is that if all the wells fail this year, Porto may still have the option to sell to its partner, which may be able to use the loss carryforward on the balance sheet. I like this kind of a situation. TER: So it may still be a winner for investors. CL: Possibly. The risk/reward is in my favor, which also tells you how undervalued many resource plays are. The market has been in extreme conditions and Porto is just one example. There are so many undervalued plays out there that I am looking at right now. TER: Does Porto have enough money to be able to do exploration work on its own? CL: The two to three wells it plans to drill will be completely on the partner's money, so it's kind of a win-win situation for both. TER: So it doesn't have to go out and try to raise more money in the foreseeable future. CL: Exactly. Management owns a lot of the stock and has been very careful about dilution.