Look no further for your oil and gas play.  Arena Resources, Inc. (ard) rose $4.27/share to achieve a closing price of $55.17/share on double the average daily volume (3 month).  Arena Resources is an oil and gas drilling and exploration company and with a market cap of just under 2B it places the Tulsa, OK based company in the small cap category.  Arena is coming off of a strong first quarter beating estimates by 13.3%.  The company carries a PE of around 54 but has the earnings growth to back it up which is projected to come in close to 100% higher than what the company was able to report in 2007.

ARD Current Ratio    
Dec. 06′ 0.978    
Dec. 07′ 1.517    
% change 55.11%    
  EPS Estimate Same Q Year Ago % change
2nd Q 08′ 0.54 0.25 116.00%
3rd Q 08′ 0.50 0.32 56.25%

 

 

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