PXP. Stock Analysis.

Ticker : PXP
Current Price : $76.85
More info: Plains Exploration & Production Co
Company Type : Growth
Sector : Energy
Industry : Oil & Gas Operations
Market Cap : Mid Cap. 8.261 B.

Current Stock Trend: Long Uptrend

Important Ratios:

Ratio	Company	Average Industry Ratio	Good?
P/E	22.92	15.00	false
PEG	0.51	1.00	true
TL/E (Total Liability/ Equity)	1.56	1.44	false
P/CF (Price/Cash flow)	0.00	0.00	false
P/B	0.00	0.00	false

Fundamentals during last 5 Quarters:

Dbt/CF (This ratio tells me how company is using the borrowed money)
17.74	21	18.76	20	74
Cash Flow
284	302	144	121	19.95
Debt
5,051	6,355	2,710	2,527	1,484
Net Income
163	80	32	25	20
Income increase
104%	143%	29%	23%

Fundamentals during last 5 years:

Dbt/CF
10.81	1.97	4.37	4.85	7.25
Cash Flow
588	674	463	363	118
Debt
6,355	1,332	2,023	1,762	858
Net Income
158	597	-214	8.84	59
Income increase
-73%	100%	-2,520%	-85%

MSN Caps rating.

Going to significantly outperform the market With less than average risk

Pros

Relative price change and consistency is very high. Very positive

Earnings was much higher than forecast. Positive

P/S is significantly higher . Very positive

Cons

The PE is higer. Negative

Opinion Bars

First bar: Industry analysts bar opinion about this stock. (Hold and sell are counted as sell. Buy is not counted. Strong buy's are counted as buy)
Analysts : 13: Buy 3: Sell

Second Bar: Opinions from socialpicks.com website.
SocialPicks: 3 Buy 0 Sell

Third Bar : This bar tells me if the mutual funds and institutions are buying this stock.
Market Action : 15 Buy 6 Sell

General Market buzz

Insider Trading (% of stocks traded during last 1 year compared to what they had before)

Delimitros Tom H (Director) :-37%
Dees Jerry L (Director) :-18%
Flores James C (Controller) :-62%
Feeback Cynthia A (CAO) :-12%
Buckwalter Alan R Iii (Director) :-5%
Lollar John H (Director) :-2%
Gerry Robert L Iii (Director) :-17%
Wombwell John F (COO) :-35%
Arnold Isaac Jr (Director) :-5%
Talbert Winston M (VP) :-6%

Report created on Tue Jun/24/2008 03:14