TM editors' note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. 

The energy sector includes six industries all related to bringing oil and gas to market. They are as follows: drilling, exploration, and production (E&P), equipment and services, integrated, midstream, refining & marketing.  all such oily and gassy enterprises.

Today I'm reviewing an oil and gas drilling firm. It's a nano-cap stock with market capital under $200 million. Its name is Awilco Drilling Plc  It's trading ticker symbol is AWLCF. 

Awilco Drilling PLC operates drilling rigs. Its principal business owning offshore drilling rigs and to provide drilling services for oil and gas companies using those rigs.

Awilco Drilling PLC provides its contract drilling services to oil and gas companies in the United Kingdom. It owns and operates two enhanced pacesetter semisubmersible drilling rigs. 

The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Westhill, the United Kingdom.

I use three key data points gauge the value of any dividend equity or fund like Awilco Drilling Plc: 

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

After those three, four more keys will finally unlock an equity or fund in which to invest.

However, it's those first three primary keys that best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money. 

AWLCF Price

Awilco Drilling's price was $4.93 per share at yesterday's market close. A year ago its price was $3.61 for a gain of $1.32 per share in the past year.  

Assuming AWLCF's price will trade between the range of $3.50 to $6.50 next year, its price could grow another $1.32 from $4.93 to $6.25 by April 2019. 

AWLCF Dividends

Awilco Drilling's most recent quarterly dividend was $0.20 paid March 23rd. Total annual dividend for 2018 of $0.80 per share for a yield of nearly 16.2% at yesterdays $4.93 stock price.

Gains For AWLCF?

The $1.32 estimated year over year price gain plus an anticipated dividend of  $0.80 makes a projected gross annual gain of $2.12, which will be reduced by the cost to trade these shares.  

$1,000.00 invested today at the $4.93 price buys 203 shares. 

A $10 broker fee paid half at purchase and half at sale subtracts about $0.5 per share

Taking that $0.5 brokerage cost out of the estimated $1.32 gross gain leaves a net gain of $1.27 X 203 shares 

= $257.81

or a 25.5% potential net gain on a $1000.79 investment.

Therefore, Awilco Drilling Plc (whose ticker symbol is AWLCF), now shows a possible 25.5% net gain including a 16.2% dividend yield. 

No analysts cover this stock. AWILCF's past year price varied from a low $3.32 to yesterday's high of $4.93 so beware of volatility in this British offshore driller.

The forward-looking numbers were conjecture based on past year performance. Actual results remain to be seen.  They could turn out to be far higher or lower. More study is required for you to determine if Awilco Drilling plc is worth your time and money.