Two big buys pay off

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PARAMOUNT RESOURCES $13.61 (Toronto symbol POU; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (403-290-3600; www.paramountres.com; Shares outstanding: 132.2 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; No dividends paid) owns oil and gas properties in Alberta and B.C. The company completed two big transactions in the 2017 third quarter. The first was the takeover of Trilogy Energy, a Stock Pickers Digest pick. The second was the purchase of Apache Canada for $486.9 million. Production for the three months ended June 30, 2018, averaged 86,741 barrels a day. That reflects a full quarter of Trilogy and Apache contributions. Cash flow was $0.47 a share. Paramount’s long-term debt of $758.9 million is a manageable 42.2% of its market cap. The stock trades at 5.9 times the company’s forecast 2018 cash flow of $2.30 a share. Paramount Resources is a buy. buy…