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Box Ships to Float $25 Million Stock Issue

By Eric Volkman, The Motley Fool

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Box Ships is to float a $25 million share offering, issued in the form of common stock in an underwritten public flotation. The company’s underwriters are to be granted a 30-day purchase option for an additional $3.75 million worth of common shares to cover overallotments, if any.

The ocean transport company said it plans to use the proceeds of the issue for “general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of debt and the acquisition of vessels.”

Global Hunter Securities is the lead managing underwriter and sole book-runner of the issue. No other underwriters were identified, nor did Box Ships provide timing for the offering.

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The Top 3 Oil and Gas Stocks This Week

By Dan Dzombak, The Motley Fool

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Oil prices were on the move this week after a pipeline shutdown in the North Sea. At the oil market‘s close on Tuesday, Brent crude was up 1.1% to $111.61 and WTI crude was up 0.3% to $90.86. Later in the evening, it was announced that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez had died. Venezuela is OPEC‘s fourth largest member in terms of production, but it’s unclear how Chavez’s death will affect the oil market. U.S. natural gas, meanwhile, remains stuck in the doldrums, down 0.3% this week to $3.53.

The top oil and gas stocks this week
1. This week’s leader is Endeavour International , up 58% this week to $3.97. Endeavour has had a self-inflicted rough year and an even rougher month. Last summer, with the stock around $12, Endeavour announced a dilutive share offering and took on additional debt to purchase oilfield assets from ConocoPhillips in the North Sea. The stock dropped from a high of $12.82 to the share offering price of $7.50 and slowly continued falling.

On Feb. 14 at a price of $5, the company announced that a storm the previous week had damaged its well at East Rochelle and that it was halting operations there. At the same time, the company announced that it was hiring investment bank Tudor, Pickering, & Holt to pursue strategic alternatives. The stock immediately plummeted. You know it’s bad when the brokerage that did the most recent stock offering downgrades the stock from “buy” to “neutral,” which Global Hunter Securities did on Feb. 20.

Endeavour hit a low of $2.36 last week. The stock has since come back a bit, but with a large debt load, a $115 million credit facility due in October, and a damaged well, things don’t look good for Endeavour. I’d pass on this one.

2. Second this week is InterOil , up 14% to $77.68. Interoil is the developer of the massive Elk and Antelope natural gas fields in Papua New Guinea and has an LNG export facility to go along with it. In November, the government of Papua New Guinea announced that it would take a 50% stake in each of the oil fields, which should derisk the project somewhat. The company has been searching for partners to build its facilities and set a firm deadline of Feb. 28 for proposals. If the company can find a partner, and if the company can get its facilities built, there are huge opportunities to export natural gas to Asia. That’s a lot of “ifs” for everything to work out, and short sellers have taken notice, with 12 million shares are currently sold short, or roughly 25% of the float. Investors should be careful.

3. And in third place this week is RigNet , up 10% to $21.55. If you’ve never heard of RigNet, you aren’t alone. The company had its IPO in 2010 and is a provider of remote communications services to the oil rig …read more
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5 of Last Week's Biggest Losers

By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

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There’s never a shortage of losers in the stock market. Let’s take a closer look at five of this past week’s biggest sinkers.

Company

March 1

Weekly Loss

ITT Educational Services

$13.56

27%

Molycorp

$5.81

12%

GT Advanced Technologies

$2.78

12%

Halcon Resources

$6.65

11%

OmniVision Technologies

$13.61

11%

Source: Barron’s.

ITT Educational Services flunked out after revealing that the SEC was investigating the accounting behind the post-secondary educator’s private loans program.

Molycorp fell after delaying its fourth-quarter report to March 15. The rare-earth minerals producer still isn’t sure how big a goodwill hit it will be taking related to last year’s purchase of Neo Material Technologies.

Facing challenging conditions in the solar and LED markets, GT Advanced Technologies posted disappointing quarterly results. GT served up a loss as revenue declined sequentially and year over year. The company booked just $6.5 million in new orders during the quarter.

Global Hunter Securities downgraded Halcon Resources this week, even after the Bakken oil producer delivered strong growth in its latest quarter.

Finally we have OmniVision posting a double-digit percentage decline after offering a weak near-term outlook. OmniVision is the top dog in image sensors at a time when high-quality cameras are a priority in smartphones and tablets. The problem for OmniVision is that this has become a very competitive market.

Sure, OmniVision far exceeded Wall Street expectations on the top and bottom line during the holiday quarter, but its near-term outlook isn’t as rosy. OmniVision’s guidance for earning $0.14 to $0.29 a share on no more than $330 million in revenue is well short of the $0.32 profit on $371.5 million in revenue that analysts were forecasting.

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Longtime Fool contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz and The Motley Fool have no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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