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A TREMENDOUS BARGAIN FROM THE NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY
Written by Jody Chudley
Thursday, May 19, 2022
On March 31, I pounded the table on natural gas for the long term. But I should
have been thinking on a shorter time frame.
I had no idea natural gas prices would go ballistic over the month and a half
immediately following my call.
In late March, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price, a benchmark for natural gas
prices, sat at $5.46 per million cubic feet.
By May, Henry Hub had hit an intraday high of $8.70 per million cubic feet – a
breathtaking increase of 60% in just 35 days.
Gas prices have more than doubled year to date.
We’re seeing the highest natural gas prices in 13 years.
There have been two fundamental drivers behind this gas rally:
1. An abnormally warm spring has led to increased usage of air conditioning,
which requires natural gas.
2. The U.S. is sending a record amount of liquified natural gas to Europe to
lessen the West’s dependence on Russian natural gas.
Consequently, natural gas reserves are now far below normal, down 21% from a
year prior and down 17% from the five-year average.
For context, storage level is the main data point traders watch to set natural
gas prices…
STEADY AS SHE GOES
It’s unusual to see a spike in natural gas prices in spring, when temperate
weather lessens demand for gas-fueled heating and air conditioning. Far more
unusual is the fact that natural gas producers have remained unresponsive to
rising natural gas prices.
In an industrywide change in strategy, publicly traded oil and gas producers are
no longer throwing money at drilling more wells and relentlessly growing
production.
That old game plan didn’t work.
It lost the oil and gas industry and its shareholders hundreds of billions of
dollars in value.
Now, in the face of shareholder backlash, publicly traded producers have adopted
an approach that involves drilling just enough to keep production flat.
Instead of spending money chasing growth, these companies are now either
returning extra cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases or
using it to shore up corporate balance sheets by reducing debt.
Why this wasn’t always the strategy, I don’t know.
But I know that it’s working.
I CAN’T IGNORE THIS VALUATION AND DIVIDEND COMBO
When I originally made my bullish natural gas call, I noted that my favorite way
to play it was buying shares of Chesapeake Energy (Nasdaq: CHK).
Since then, Chesapeake’s shares have shined in a difficult stock market.
But… Chesapeake’s shares have significantly trailed the rise in natural gas
prices…
Chesapeake’s recent first quarter 2022 earnings release has me convinced that if
natural gas prices remain strong over the longer term, the company’s shares will
prove to be a tremendous bargain.
Chesapeake generated an all-time best $532 million of free cash flow in the
first quarter, and free cash flow guidance was raised by 35% to $2.7 billion for
2022.
The company’s current market valuation of $10.4 billion means that its shares
are trading at a 25% free cash flow yield.
That’s the exact same free cash flow yield that oil producer Cenovus Energy
(NYSE: CVE) traded at when I recommended it at $10.78 per share on October 5,
2021.
That trade has worked out pretty well for us, as Cenovus now trades for more
than $20 per share.
Chesapeake not only is generating lots of free cash flow but also is using the
free cash flow for the benefit of shareholders.
Chesapeake announced a quarterly dividend of $2.34 per share, which represents a
10% yield at current share price levels.
Plus, Chesapeake repurchased 1% of all outstanding shares in the first quarter
of 2022 and it will be buying back more in the months and years ahead.
Natural gas is a volatile commodity, so owning shares of a producer like
Chesapeake will be a bit of a bumpy ride.
But if I’m right and natural gas prices remain strong over the long term,
Chesapeake is going to keep paying shareholders a huge dividend, and
furthermore, it will eventually see its share price rise to better reflect the
free cash flow the business is generating, which can be returned to
shareholders.
Good investing,
Jody
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