From this mornings internet trawl of coal stocks from...

From this mornings internet trawl of coal stocks from FNArena:

"Goldman Sachs still ranks coal amongst its top tier of commodities for equity investment purposes and sees prices recovering going into 2013. The broker expects the production cuts currently in train will be supportive of prices down the track. In downgrading the earnings outlook for producers by average 51% in FY13 and 26% in FY14, Credit Suisse believes picking the right stocks helps. The broker flags Whitehaven Coal and Bandanna Energy as its preferred players in this sector. Whitehaven, having recently been toyed with and then dropped as a takeover target by mining entrepreneur Nathan Tinkler's interests, has made brokers a little shy of the company. Nonetheless, all those covering the stock on the FNArena database consider it a Buy and RBS thinks WHC may become a bid target again when the dust settles. Bandanna is covered by UBS as well and the broker also rates the stock as Buy"