Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has been in the news a lot lately. Looks like the stock has been sliding for a while, and then all the shady dealing that happened with the Chairman of the Board. On top of that, company announced a disappointing quarter that way below the estimates for the last quarter as well as unrelenting low natural gas prices.
After all this negativity I bough a couple put options to make some money on the stock sliding down. However, looking over the stock I also do realize that my put options may be a very short term strategy. I believe the stock could be a good long term buy. Looking at the fundamentals, it's a great value stock, as it is trading almost 5-7 dollars below the BOOK VALUE. It's yield on dividend is almost 2%, and sooner or later the natural gas will rise and the stock pile that Chesapeake has will bring a nice return to the company. One of the headlines also mentioned Chesapeake as a potential take over target.
I think it is worth doing more research into the company. But I think as soon as media relinquishes Chesapeake Energy from it's grip, the stock has a very attractive long term potential, weather as a long term stock purchase for the price appreciation and dividend, or perhaps some LEAP way out of the money call options or a nice vertical bull call spread.
Then again, based on how the company has been run so far, I think maybe really really out of the money options could be a safe bet, because it seems Chesapeake still have a lot of cleaning up to do.
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