Share tip of the week: oil services will gush profits

2009 will be a tough year for the oil industry, yet Paul Hill believes the harsh climate could play to the advantage of this oil services firm.

With sterling looking about as attractive as a New Year's Day hangover, one of my investment priorities for 2009 is to find British stocks with sound balance sheets, that generate lots of cash and make a big portion of their profits from overseas markets. The tip below, in the out-of-favour oil services sector, offer these qualities in spades.

Hunting (LSE:HTG), tipped as a BUY by FinnCap

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.