PEs and VCs may emerge as O&M white knights
But this needs to be preceded by lenders taking the necessary haircuts
THE bottom for exploration and production spending is near, Pareto Securities proclaimed in an August research note drawing from its annual E&P survey with oil and gas companies. Going by the adage of "buy low, sell high", investors taking on the Pareto hint should have started bottom-fishing for bargain offshore & marine (O&M) stocks. Yet this has not happened and Singapore stocks that have sunk amid the protracted slump in the sector, especially the small- to mid-cap counters, are still drifting close to their 52-week lows.
Many in the market will be quick to blame the selloff inflicting most O&M counters on Swiber Holdings' now aborted winding-up petition. This may be…
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