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Hi Pat, what do you think about Paramount Resources?

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Paramount Resources, $59.85, symbol POU on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 104.6 million; Market cap: $6.3 billion; www.paramountres.com), produces oil and natural gas in Alberta and B.C. Its output is 20% oil and 80% gas. In the three months ended June 30, 2014, Paramount produced 20,585 barrels of oil equivalent a day, down 1.0% from 20,790 barrels a year earlier. However, cash flow per share rose 25.0%, to $0.30 from $0.24, along with natural gas prices, which increased 24.9%, to $4.96 per thousand cubic feet from $3.97. Paramount’s long-term debt of $1.2 billion is a low 19.4% of its market cap. The company also has a stock portfolio of other firms valued at $757.0 million as of June 30, 2014. Those investments include 19.1 million shares of Trilogy Energy (Toronto symbol TET) worth $546 million at today’s price. The company just started up its Musreau Deep Cut gas-processing facility, which will let it begin production from wells it has drilled in Alberta’s Musreau area. As…