On April 17th, I wrote that financials looked good and that company reported $ 4.67 eps fully diluted. This was a big change from the $ 0.37 eps fully diluted 2022 earnings. All true....
I took a second look at the 2023 financials today and noted that $ 37,923,000 of the $ 46,144,000 profit after interest and taxes related to a 'gain on acquisition'. This income was booked at 2023 year-end and relates to the Boulder and Slate acquisitions. Note 6 to the financial statements explains the income in detail, but the short story is that HAM felt that they paid less than FMV for the Boulder and Slate businesses and reported the 'savings' as a 'gain on acquisition'.
The reason I mention this is that the gain is a one-time event. If we look to HAM's performance in the last half of 2023, and ignore the 'gain on acquisition', the income per share is much lower than the $ 4.67 fully diluted 2023 eps.
2023 income per financial statements $ 46,144,000
add back losses in Q1 and Q2 / 2023. 627,000
Income earned in last half of 2023. 46,771,000
less one-time gain on acquisition 37,923,000
Net income for last half of 2023, ignoring. 8,848,000
one-time gain on acquisition
Fully-diluted Q3 and Q4 2023 $ 0.90/eps fully diluted for last 6 months of 2023
earnings per share ignoring one-time
gain on acquistion. There were
9,875,000 fully-diluted shares to consider.
See note 13c to the 2023 financial statements
So, projected on an annual basis, HAM might earn approx $ 1.80/share
fully-diluted from recurring operations based on results from last half of 2023.
To be clear, one cannot project future income from past operations with any
certainty. Oil producers profitability is largely tied to production figures, commodity
prices and drilling costs, so that any forward looking projections are simply stabs in the dark.
Please do you own review.
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I think that HAM can be proud of the acquisitions because they turned HAM from a money losing company in the first half of 2023 to a profitable company in the last half of 2023 with15.2 years of proved and probable reserves.
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