RE:Valuation should be much higheryup it should be a double digit stock price. I like them both too. More drama with YGR - market does not trust managment as much, but I think management has figured it out now. And their balance sheet is in decent shape - too little oil for me at the moment. I owned a big position in them for most of the last 6 years. One of a few decent average down decisions. Now they are poised for a move up with just a tiny bit more drilling success it will rocket. Should be at least a double next year, more with higher oil prices. I noticed the short position has dropped about a million shares in the last Q.
BNE - a little too quiet for the market over the last two years. Not much to say though when the only priority is deleveraging. People want more timely updates, some information on drilling details and a decision on when they would be starting distributions again. Big light oil weighting, lots of solid history, very few negative surprises (other than Q3, which could have been messaged a bit better) and a history of paying out huge distributions from a smaller sized company. BNE wants to drop the debt a little more but really the balance sheet is in good enough shape now. Shorts have added a small position - about 2.5% of the shares. To me it looks like they are taking advantage of the tax loss selling move with a thin trader. guess we will see.
BNE has by far the best land position and the free cash flow yield is higher. YGR has held up extremely well in the past month though and they may in fact grow their cash flow to a higher level.
Looking forward to the news flow out of both of them in the next 12 months.