Laredo Petroleum Inc shares could get back into a rising trend over the medium term, as suggested by technical indicators.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 7.16 and 5.63 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2019 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Over the last seven days, analysts have been revising upwards their EPS estimates for the company.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
Weaknesses
● The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
● Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
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Vital Energy, Inc. is an independent energy company. The Company is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The Company operates through a single segment, exploration and production. It has assembled 265,306 largely contiguous net acres in the Permian Basin, most of which is prospective for multi-zone development in Glasscock, Howard, Midland, Reagan, and Upton counties in the Midland Basin and Pecos, Reeves, and Ward counties in the Delaware Basin. The Company has purchased certain oil and gas properties in the Delaware Basin, including approximately 21,450 net acres located in Reeves County, 15,500 net acres located in Reeves County, and 24,000 net acres in Pecos, Reeves and Ward Counties. It has also purchased certain oil and natural gas properties in the Midland Basin, including approximately 11,200 net acres located in Upton and Reagan Counties.
VITAL ENERGY, INC. 
