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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	C$1.46 -2.0%	C$1.58	C$1.08 ▼ C$1.99	C$55.57M	1.99	32,619 shs	12,969 shs
CET Central Securities	$40.21 -0.4%	$39.96	$33.85 ▼ $41.99	$1.14B	0.86	40,212 shs	33,373 shs
WRG Western Energy Services	C$2.80	C$2.70	C$2.22 ▼ C$3.95	C$94.75M	1.59	36,968 shs	127 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	0.00%	-1.32%	-10.24%	+4.20%	0.00%
CET Central Securities	-0.44%	-1.99%	+0.67%	+8.32%	+4,036,999,900.00%
WRG Western Energy Services	0.00%	0.00%	+1.82%	+2.94%	+6.87%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	3.472 of 5 stars	3.5	0.0	2.5	0.0	3.2	0.8	1.9
CET Central Securities	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WRG Western Energy Services	1.6175 of 5 stars	1.0	0.0	1.7	0.0	2.8	4.2	1.9

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	3.00	Buy	C$2.80	91.78% Upside
CET Central Securities	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WRG Western Energy Services	2.00	Hold	C$2.75	-1.79% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest AKT.A, SEY, WRG, G3E, and CET Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/18/2024	WRG Western Energy Services	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	C$3.00 ➝ C$2.75
3/22/2024	AKT.A AKITA Drilling	ATB Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target		C$3.30 ➝ C$2.80
2/5/2024	AKT.A AKITA Drilling	ATB Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	C$3.25 ➝ C$3.30

(Data available from 4/18/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	C$225.48M	0.25	C$0.13 per share	11.48	C$3.93 per share	0.37
CET Central Securities	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WRG Western Energy Services	C$233.45M	0.41	C$0.32 per share	8.79	C$8.67 per share	0.32

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	C$18.41M	C$0.71	2.06	∞	N/A	8.17%	12.53%	3.25%	N/A
CET Central Securities	N/A	N/A	0.00	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WRG Western Energy Services	-C$7.21M	-C$0.20	N/A	∞	0.09	-3.09%	-2.30%	0.38%	4/23/2024 (Estimated)

Latest AKT.A, SEY, WRG, G3E, and CET Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
2/28/2024	Q4 2023	WRG Western Energy Services	N/A	-C$0.06	-C$0.06	-C$0.06	C$55.00 million	C$56.26 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	C$0.34	23.29%	N/A	47.89%	N/A
CET Central Securities	$1.85	4.60%	+27.22%	N/A	N/A
WRG Western Energy Services	C$0.20	7.14%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	45.15	1.85	1.54
CET Central Securities	N/A	N/A	N/A
WRG Western Energy Services	38.97	1.66	1.46

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	22.02%
CET Central Securities	8.68%
WRG Western Energy Services	50.14%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	17.36%
CET Central Securities	10.30%
WRG Western Energy Services	32.65%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AKT.A AKITA Drilling	1,085	38.06 million	N/A	Not Optionable
CET Central Securities	N/A	28.39 million	25.46 million	Not Optionable
WRG Western Energy Services	675	33.84 million	N/A	Not Optionable

AKT.A, SEY, WRG, G3E, and CET Headlines

Source	Headline
	Western Energy Services (TSE:WRG) Price Target Lowered to C$2.75 at Stifel Nicolaus marketbeat.com - April 18 at 2:07 PM
	Insider Buying: Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) Insider Purchases 27,100 Shares of Stock insidertrades.com - April 4 at 6:49 AM
	Insider Buying: Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) Insider Buys 27,100 Shares of Stock marketbeat.com - April 3 at 11:21 AM
	Insider Buying: Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) Insider Buys 63,300 Shares of Stock insidertrades.com - March 26 at 4:44 AM
	Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) Insider Buys C$174,068.67 in Stock marketbeat.com - March 25 at 6:24 PM
	Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) Insider Sime Armoyan Purchases 21,200 Shares insidertrades.com - March 20 at 7:19 AM
	Sime Armoyan Acquires 62,400 Shares of Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) Stock insidertrades.com - March 16 at 9:43 AM
	Analysts Conflicted on These Energy Names: Western Midstream Partners (WES), AltaGas (OtherATGFF) and MEG Energy (OtherMEGEF) markets.businessinsider.com - March 11 at 12:16 PM
	Yellow Medicine County to look anew at renewable energy ordinances wctrib.com - February 16 at 7:35 AM
	Western Energy Services Corp. (WRG.TO) finance.yahoo.com - January 18 at 9:54 AM
	WESTERN ENERGY SERVICES CORP. ANNOUNCES 2024 CAPITAL BUDGET finance.yahoo.com - January 15 at 6:49 PM
	Western Energy Services Corp WRG morningstar.com - November 16 at 6:44 AM
	Governors buck partisanship to focus on Western agenda at meeting in Jackson trib.com - November 10 at 1:55 PM
	Western students collaborate on Annual Site Environmental Report for A-Plant newswatchman.com - October 30 at 6:48 PM
	Returns At Western Energy Services (TSE:WRG) Are On The Way Up finance.yahoo.com - October 29 at 1:50 PM
	Business in brief: Regional energy declines but is expected to pick up tulsaworld.com - October 24 at 12:55 AM
	Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub coalition hub falls short of federal grant wyomingnews.com - October 18 at 8:02 PM
	SPP RTO Will Expand with Commitments from Western Utilities tdworld.com - September 15 at 1:30 PM
	Are Investors Undervaluing Western Energy Services Corp. (TSE:WRG) By 26%? finance.yahoo.com - August 10 at 8:56 AM
	Closing Bell: Western Energy Services Corp flat on Friday (WRG) theglobeandmail.com - August 6 at 7:19 PM
	WESTERN ENERGY SERVICES CORP. RELEASES SECOND QUARTER 2023 FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RESULTS finance.yahoo.com - July 25 at 9:10 PM
	Western Oregon Builders Association applauds city's natural gas ban repeal kezi.com - July 11 at 11:23 PM
	Tallgrass and Korea Western Power Team Up to Advance South Korea’s Clean Energy Goals joplinglobe.com - July 5 at 8:44 AM
	Get out of Russia while you still can, ex-oligarch warns Western energy giants politico.eu - June 14 at 11:37 PM

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Company Descriptions

AKITA Drilling

TSE:AKT.A

AKITA Drilling Ltd. provides provides contract drilling services in Canada and the United States. The company is involved in the drilling of oil and gas wells; other forms of drilling related to potash mining; and development of storage caverns. It specializes in pad and other purpose-built drilling rigs; and conventional, directional, horizontal, and underbalanced drilling, as well as provides specialized drilling services. As of December 31, 2018, the company had 17 wholly owned and operated drilling rigs in Canada; and 17 drilling rigs in the United States. It serves independent and multinational oil and gas companies. AKITA Drilling Ltd. was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Central Securities

NYSE:CET

Central Securities Corp. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It also invests on bonds, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, options real estate, or short-term obligations of governments, banks and corporations. Central Securities Corp. was founded on October 1, 1929 and is based in New York City.

Western Energy Services

TSE:WRG

Western Energy Services Corp. operates as an oilfield service company in Canada and the United States. It operates through Contract Drilling and Production Services segments. The Contract Drilling segment provides contract drilling services using drilling rigs and auxiliary equipment. The Production Services segment offers well servicing rig and related equipment, as well as rental equipment services. Western Energy Services Corp. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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