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Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and failure can’t be understated. The company’s demise had any number of victims, LINN Energy, an oil and gas company, not the least among them.
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But LINN Energy Chairman and CEO Michael C. Linn, speaking to Cramer Monday, debunked any such notions about his firm. Lehman was a counterparty to only a “very small portion” of LINN’s hedges – LINN was smart and locked in prices before oil and gas came down – and those were immediately re-traded to other banks after Lehman’s collapse. Now Lehman owes $68 million for those hedges.
And as for being vulnerable to the market, LINN is 100% hedged against natural gas fluctuations through 2010 and oil through 2011. So the price of oil and gas could rise or fall by 15% and LINN’s 17% dividend yield would be unaffected, the CEO said.
With Linn guaranteeing the dividend, and the stock of a strong company only down because of the Lehman collapse, not any legitimate problem with the business, “I think this stock should be bought,” Cramer said.
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