Fertiliser companies are very out of favour at the moment. A major Russian producer has recently turned its back on a cartel and the stocks of fertiliser companies have quite rightly been thrashed as a result. This means that value investors and contrarians will be looking for any mis-pricing.
In Part 1 I looked at oil prices briefly, concluding that while important it is unknowable and therefore, as Warren Buffett advises, don’t spend all your time worrying about it. Instead lets worry about what we can know and that’s oil exploration.