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Dawson Geophysical Company (DWSN)

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The Company acquires and processes 2-D, 3-D seismic and multi-component seismic data for its clients, ranging from major oil and gas companies to independent oil and gas operations as well as providers of multi-client data libraries.

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Energy (450), Hard Asset (1002), Energy Equipment and Services (96), Micro Cap (4701), Services (185), Value (1901)
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Dawson Geophysical Company At A Glance

Current Price: $24.06
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $0.00
Previous Close: $23.83
Daily Range: $23.87 - $24.35
52-Week Range: $9.96 - $35.98
Volume: 53,825
Market Cap: $187.89M
P/E Ratio: 18.40
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Dawson Geophysical Company (DWSN)

Avatar PLynchJr (99.92) Submitted: 12/08/09 9:03 AM

Selling for less than the value of the equipment and cash. No debt. Still cash flow positive. Able to survive a long downturn. May take a while but should go up a lot once oil and gas prices return to a reasonable level.

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Dawson Geophysical Company (DWSN)

Avatar Hesse (84.69) Submitted: 5/05/07 3:26 PM

great run and with a p/e>25 time to go temporarily south

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Avatar whack47 (< 20) Submitted: 2/08/10 9:45 PM : Outperform Start Price: $24.17 DWSN Score: -0.54

Materials will go up with inflation.
I'm just going with the crowd. (I'm only 12!)

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Avatar EBStroke (< 20) Submitted: 2/08/10 12:01 PM : Underperform Start Price: $24.70 DWSN Score: 2.82

Zacks Rank 1-Hold, Recommend Underperform, Industry Rank 161 / 217, Target 20.30, Avg Target of 2 analysts 24.00

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Avatar tthwebster (84.16) Submitted: 2/05/10 8:31 PM : Outperform Start Price: $23.59 DWSN Score: 6.58

MarketEdge updated Long on 2/5/10. No debt, 15 million in cash. Roughly $80 pps at its pinnacle. Slumped to less than $20 in March of last year. only up 5 bucks since that time.
Dawson reported revenues down 55% yoy with a net loss of 4.2 million. This is only about 10% of revenue and will be easily overcome as we come into the warmer months. Working crews were reduced from four crews to now only one crew as previously announced "until a more competitive pricing environment is realized". According to Stephen Jumper (Pres and CEO) "The first quarter of fiscal 2010 was challenging; Lower crew utilization rates and excessive weather downtime on several crews in October and December, coupled with first quarter related issues of shorter days and holiday season negatively impacted our results.
Despite the disappointing first quarter results, we have experienced an increase in demand for our services which was beginning in late Calendar '09 in various basins."

Moving into some oil and gas drilling programs by Williams, Oxy, Antero Resources and others indicates that Dawson and other seismic mapping companies will see a steady increase in revenue over the next few years.
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Avatar Linsen83 (< 20) Submitted: 1/31/10 3:53 PM : Outperform Start Price: $23.69 DWSN Score: 2.42

Solid company, will increase sales as the economy gets going. Currently selling at less than cash on balance sheet. That's a margin of safety I like!

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Avatar bythecampfire (20.82) Submitted: 1/25/10 9:45 AM : Underperform Start Price: $23.80 DWSN Score: -3.88

2/2

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