
To own OPC Energy, you need to be comfortable with a capital hungry build out story that leans heavily on large U.S. and Israeli power projects and persistent electricity demand. The latest quarterly report, with US$575 million in sales and US$100 million in net income, indicates that the existing asset base is generating meaningful earnings while construction and financing work on projects like Ramat Beka and Shay continues in the background.
The immediate swing factors are execution on those large projects, the reliability of power plant operations, and how pricing and volumes in power markets evolve. Earnings growth over the past year has been strong. However, the stock trades on a P/E of 79.7x and interest costs are not well covered by earnings, so the bar for future cash generation is high and missteps on schedule, budget or refinancing would matter quickly.
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