Yahoo Finance Loss-Making Karoon Energy Ltd (ASX:KAR) Expected To Breakeven
Karoon Energy Ltd's (ASX:KAR): Karoon Energy Ltd operates as an oil and gas exploration company in Australia, Brazil, and Peru. The AU$250m market-cap company announced a latest loss of -AU$28.4m on 30 June 2019 for its most recent financial year result. As path to profitability is the topic on KAR’s investors mind, I’ve decided to gauge market sentiment. Below I will provide a high-level summary of the industry analysts’ expectations for KAR.
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Consensus from the 2 Oil and Gas analysts is KAR is on the verge of breakeven. They anticipate the company to incur a final loss in 2020, before generating positive profits of AU$85m in 2021. Therefore, KAR is expected to breakeven roughly 2 years from now. In order to meet this breakeven date, I calculated the rate at which KAR must grow year-on-year. It turns out an average annual growth rate of 105% is expected, which is rather optimistic! Should the business grow at a slower rate, it will become profitable at a later date than expected.
Given this is a high-level overview, I won’t go into details of KAR’s upcoming projects, though, bear in mind that typically oil and gas companies, depending on the stage of operation and resource produced, have irregular periods of cash flow. This means, large upcoming growth rates are not abnormal as the company is beginning to reap the benefits of earlier investments.
One thing I’d like to point out is that KAR has managed its capital prudently, with debt making up -0.004% of equity. This means that KAR has predominantly funded its operations from equity capital,and its low debt obligation reduces the risk around investing in the loss-making company.
Next Steps:
There are too many aspects of KAR to cover in one brief article, but the key fundamentals for the company can all be found in one place – KAR’s company page on Simply Wall St. I’ve also put together a list of relevant factors you should further examine:
Valuation: What is KAR worth today? Has the future growth potential already been factored into the price? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether KAR is currently mispriced by the market.
Management Team: An experienced management team on the helm increases our confidence in the business – take a look at who sits on Karoon Energy’s board and the CEO’s back ground.
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