Advantage Energy Ltd. (TSE:AAV) Senior Officer Geoffrey Keyser Acquires 4,000 Shares

Advantage Energy Ltd. (TSE:AAV - Get Free Report) NYSE: AAV Senior Officer Geoffrey Keyser acquired 4,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, October 28th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of C$8.89 per share, with a total value of C$35,540.00.

Advantage Energy Stock Performance

Shares of TSE AAV traded down C$0.22 during midday trading on Monday, reaching C$8.90. 360,612 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 444,548. The firm has a market cap of C$1.49 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.40, a PEG ratio of -3.58 and a beta of 1.46. Advantage Energy Ltd. has a twelve month low of C$8.02 and a twelve month high of C$11.73. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of C$9.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$10.05. The company has a quick ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 0.76 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 46.86.

Advantage Energy (TSE:AAV - Get Free Report) NYSE: AAV last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 24th. The company reported C($0.04) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of C$0.03 by C($0.07). The firm had revenue of C$144.86 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of C$161.10 million. Advantage Energy had a return on equity of 5.02% and a net margin of 16.05%. As a group, analysts anticipate that Advantage Energy Ltd. will post 1.4701493 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of analysts recently weighed in on AAV shares. Cormark raised shares of Advantage Energy to a "moderate buy" rating in a research note on Monday, September 23rd. TD Securities reissued a "buy" rating and set a C$13.00 price target on shares of Advantage Energy in a research report on Wednesday, October 9th. National Bank Financial lowered shares of Advantage Energy from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 8th. ATB Capital increased their price target on shares of Advantage Energy from C$13.50 to C$14.00 in a research report on Wednesday, July 10th. Finally, National Bankshares decreased their price target on shares of Advantage Energy from C$13.00 to C$11.50 in a research report on Friday, September 27th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of C$13.21.

About Advantage Energy

Advantage Energy Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploitation, development, and production natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in the Province of Alberta, Canada. Its assets are located approximately 4 to 80 km northwest of the city of Grande Prairie, Alberta.