{"id":10523,"date":"2016-12-13T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:19:49","slug":"nia-wpx-has-most-upside-headed-into-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/nia-wpx-has-most-upside-headed-into-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"NIA&#8217;s WPX Has Most Upside Headed into 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Yesterday, NIA announced&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Western Potash (TSX: WPX)<\/strong>&nbsp;at $0.135 as its&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">#1 stock suggestion for 2017<\/strong><\/span>.&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&nbsp;finished yesterday&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">up 33.33%<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">$0.18 per share<\/strong>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\"><em><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\">very strong<\/span><\/em>&nbsp;volume<\/strong>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">2,364,270<\/strong>. This could be our last chance to enter below $0.20 per share.&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&nbsp;raised&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">$80.7 million<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;in August of last year in&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">two private placement transactions<\/strong>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">$0.3358 per share<\/strong>!<\/span><\/div>\n\n<div>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In NIA&#39;s opinion,&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&nbsp;is likely to&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">very quickly return<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&nbsp;to last year&#39;s private placement price of&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">$0.3358 per share<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; with&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">North American Potash Inventories<\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">declining 49%<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&nbsp;over the past three months and&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">potash prices<\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">likely to soar<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&nbsp;in 2017!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">CAD$74.78 million or $0.16 per share in cash<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;and no debt!&nbsp;At&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&#39;s current price of&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">$0.18 per share<\/strong>&nbsp;its 100% owned 87,500 acre&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Milestone Potash Project<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;Saskatchewan, Canada,&nbsp;is being valued at only&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">CAD$9.34 million<\/strong>&nbsp;when&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">K+S AG (KPLUY)<\/strong>&nbsp;paid&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">CAD$434 million<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;in 2010 to acquire&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Potash One<\/strong>, a potash exploration company that owned the project&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">directly adjacent<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&#39;s&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Milestone Potash Project<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">K+S AG<\/strong>&nbsp;is currently constructing a mine at its adjacent&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Legacy Potash Project<\/strong>, which is set to&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\"><em>commence<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">potash production<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;in 2017! Last year,&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Potash Corp of Saskatchewan (POT)<\/strong>&nbsp;offered&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">CAD$10.9 billion<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">acquire<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">K+S AG<\/strong>, specifically for the purpose of&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\"><em>acquiring<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Legacy Potash Project<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; but&nbsp;the deal was rejected by&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">K+S AG<\/strong>&nbsp;shareholders who considered the offer to be too low!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&nbsp;has the backing of&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">China Development Bank (CDB)<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">world&#39;s&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\">largest<\/span>&nbsp;development finance institution<\/strong>&nbsp;with approximately&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">USD$2 trillion<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;in assets.&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">CDB&nbsp;<\/strong>entered into a&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">Memorandum of Understanding for Strategic Cooperation<\/strong>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">WPX<\/strong>&nbsp;in October of last year and the signing ceremony was attended by&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold !important;\">CDB Chairman Hu Huaibang<\/strong>!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, NIA announced&nbsp;Western Potash (TSX: WPX)&nbsp;at $0.135 as its&nbsp;#1 stock suggestion for 2017.&nbsp;WPX&nbsp;finished yesterday&nbsp;up 33.33%&nbsp;to&nbsp;$0.18 per share&nbsp;on&nbsp;very strong&nbsp;volume&nbsp;of&nbsp;2,364,270. This could be our last chance to enter below $0.20 per share.&nbsp;WPX&nbsp;raised&nbsp;$80.7 million&nbsp;in August of last year in&nbsp;two private placement transactions&nbsp;at&nbsp;$0.3358 per share! In NIA&#39;s opinion,&nbsp;WPX&nbsp;is likely to&nbsp;very quickly return&nbsp;to last year&#39;s private placement price of&nbsp;$0.3358 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[378,377],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-potash","tag-wpx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}