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Baytex Energy Corp T.BTE

Alternate Symbol(s):  BTE

Baytex Energy Corp. is a Canada-based energy company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, development and production of crude oil and natural gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and in the Eagle Ford in the United States. Its crude oil and natural gas operations are organized into three main operating areas: Light Oil USA (Eagle Ford), Light Oil Canada (Pembina Duvernay / Viking) and Heavy Oil Canada (Peace River / Peavine / Lloydminster). Its Eagle Ford assets are located in the core of the liquids-rich Eagle Ford shale in South Texas. The Eagle Ford shale covers approximately 269,000 gross acres of crude oil operations. Its Viking assets are located in the Dodsland area in southwest Saskatchewan and in the Esther area of southeastern Alberta. It also holds 100% working interest land position in the East Duvernay resource play in central Alberta.


TSX:BTE - Post by User

Comment by JohnnyDoeon Nov 05, 2023 12:22pm
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RE:Turning point...

RE:Turning point...
red2000 wrote: Paying  Long Term Debt or Buyback shares ??? 
Answer of Eric Greager CEO...say Nov. 3rd about Actual S/P :
''Our shares are undervalued, Avg. forecast of analysts is a good metric (no time frame)''. So for me, 8$ CDN Seems the signal to paid more LT Debt faster and Div.

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Feel free to comments !
What is your S/P signal ?






Paying debt faster isn't really going to happen Red. They've got a return to shareholders framework of 50% of fcf. 

The question was asked in the context of paying debt versus buybacks. If the shareholder returns commitment didn't exist, there'd certainly be  debate about the most prudent use of funds. Eric's answer was he's getting better value buying shares because the shares are more undervalued than the interest on the debt. 

But there's not going to be a point where they look at the piles of cash going to buybacks and say "we're better off paying debt" because if that happens, they're violating the returns commitment and that's probably not a good idea. 

Buybacks are part of the shareholder return which is 50%. I suspect to suspend buybacks and pour it all into debt, they'd poll the shareholders for approval to violate the returns commitment. 

Once the float gets to < 750M, personally I'd be good with driving the debt to zero and suspending returns to do it. But I'd want to be able to vote on a clear proposal 
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