Russell Booting Out Speculative Energy Stocks in Rebalances (AXAS, AKNS, AEZ, KAZ, CPE, CFW, CPST, DBLE, EXXI, FTK, GGR, GMET, GRH, TMR, MIND, NCOC, PEIX, QRCP, RAME, TIV, TRMA)

247wallst — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:44:04 +0000

This year is going to mark a significant change in the Russell rebalance and reconstitution at end of June. Now that oil and other energy related commodities have been cut in half from the year ago highs, we are seeing a significant number of the smaller cap and more speculative companies tied to energy. This is the list of companies which is getting the boot off of the Russell 3000 alone:

Delete   ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORP. (AXAS)
Delete   AKEENA SOLAR INC. (AKNS)
Delete   AMERICAN OIL & GAS INC. (AEZ)
Delete   BMB MUNAI INC. (KAZ)
Delete   CALLON PETROLEUM (CPE)
Delete   CANO PETROLEUM INC. (CFW)
Delete   CAPSTONE TURBINE CORP. (CPST)
Delete   DOUBLE EAGLE PETROLEUM (DBLE)
Delete   ENERGY XXI (BERMUDA) LTD. (EXXI)
Delete   FLOTEK INDS INC. (FTK)
Delete   GEOGLOBAL RESOURCES INC. (GGR)
Delete   GEOMET INC. (GMET)
Delete   GREENHUNTER ENERGY INC. (GRH)
Delete   MERIDIAN RESOURCE CORP. (TMR)
Delete   MITCHAM INDUSTRIES INC. (MIND)
Delete   NATIONAL COAL CORP (NCOC)
Delete   PACIFIC ETHANOL INC. (PEIX)
Delete   QUEST RESOURCE CORP. (QRCP)
Delete   RAM ENERGY RESOURCES INC (RAME)
Delete   TRI-VALLEY CORP (TIV)
Delete   TRICO MARINE SERVICES (TRMA)

There will be updates to this list today and next Friday with the final decision list posted on Monday, June 29. Of course, that means that some of these deletions might not get deleted in the final list. A couple were tied to alternative energy in our minds, but were listed by Russell as ‘consumer’ or ‘producer durables’ rather than in the broad “energy” group.

Jon C. Ogg

Posted in Alternative Energy, Commodities, Index, Oil & Gas Tagged: AEZ, AKNS, AXAS, CFW, CPE, CPST, DBLE, EXXI, FTK, GGR, GMET, GRH, KAZ, MIND, NCOC, PEIX, QRCP, RAME, TIV, TMR, TRMA

Margin Calls Hit Execs Left & Right (AIV, BSX, CPE, CHK, DNR, LTM, PROV, PHM, SPA, STRL, WSM)

247wallst — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:06:55 +0000

There are many C-Suite executive from Wall Street to main Street that didn’t exactly get their stock priorities right. Many company executives are getting margin calls and are being forced to liquidate their stocks. Some are for stocks in their own company, some are for stocks and general, and some are just forced to sell to meet margin calls for entirely different reasons unrelated to their companies. below is a partial list of margin call victims from this week:

Apartment Investment and Management Co. (NYSE: AIV) Executive VicePresident David Robertson sold another 14,800 company shares early thisweek after the company stock had dropped some 7).

Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) co-founder and Chairman Peter M.Nicholas was forced to sell over $29 million worth of BSX shares, butdon’t feel too bad for him. He’s got plenty more.

Callon Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: CPE) chairman and CEO Fred Callon unloaded110,000 company shares at an average price of $7.84 to meet margincalls.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) CEO Aubrey McLendon has alreadybeen wiped out of essentially all of his shares worth more than 41billion back at the peak. The sad part is his forced selling may havebeen right at the lows.

Denbury Resources Inc. (NYSE: DNR) CEO Garteth Roberts had 513,000shares sold in involuntary margin calls. Interestingly enough, thiswas to meet a real estate loan rather than any stock event.

Life Time Fitness Inc (NYSE: LTM) Chairman & CEO Bahram Akradi wasforced to sell roughly $5.6 million in involunarty stock sales sales tocover margin calls.

Provident Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PROV) senior VP Richard Galesold 5,000 shares of company stock at an average of $5.76 to meet amargin call. CEO & President Craig Blunden disclosed early thisweek that he had to unload 11,929 shares of stock the prior week tomeet margin calls.

Pulte Homes Inc. (NYSE: PHM) chairman and founder William J. Pulte soldsome 760,000 Pulte shares to meet margin calls. These were apparentlyrelated to loan agreements that involved family members
and a charitable organization. And who said charity was so great….

Sparton Corp. (NYSE: SPA) Chairman Bradley Smith dumped 12,000 sharesof company stock to meet a margin call. This sale only netted about$22,000.00, but he has had to unload over $500,000.00 so far.

Sterling Construction Co. (NASDAQ: STRL) Chief Executive PatrickManning sold an additional 3,594 shares over margin calls, and it lookslike this brings his tally to more than $750,000.00 in margin callsales. A builder, in Houston….

Williams-Sonoma Inc. (NASDAQ: WSM) Chairman & CEO W.Howard Lester has now sold roughly 2.15 million shares to cover margincalls after a last filing this week showed that he sold 1.15 millionshares. Sadly enough, he nearly sold at the 52-week low.

Jon C. Ogg
October 31, 2008

Posted in Insider Activity Tagged: AIV, BSX, CHK, CPE, DNR, LTM, PHM, PROV, SPA, STRL, WSM

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Russell Booting Out Speculative Energy Stocks in Rebalances (AXAS, AKNS, AEZ, KAZ, CPE, CFW, CPST, DBLE, EXXI, FTK, GGR, GMET, GRH, TMR, MIND, NCOC, PEIX, QRCP, RAME, TIV, TRMA)

Margin Calls Hit Execs Left & Right (AIV, BSX, CPE, CHK, DNR, LTM, PROV, PHM, SPA, STRL, WSM)