March 6 (Reuters) - Berry Petroleum Company on Tuesday sold $600 million of senior unsecured notes, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters service. Wells Fargo, BMO, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, RBS and SG Americas Securities were the joint bookrunning managers for the sale. BORROWER: BERRY PETROLEUM COMPANY ... A 20% premium, while rich, is doable , Tudor Pickering says of Linn Energy's ( LINE ) $2.5B purchase of Berry Petroleum ( BRY ). Linn wants to increase its portfolio of "long lived, shallow decline assets," and can afford to pay up, given its "lower cost of capital and focus on repeatability rather ... Berry Petroleum ( BRY -2.5% ) is downgraded to Hold from Buy at Wunderlich following its Q3 earnings miss . The firm says while 2013 projected capex of $500M-$600M is lower than expected, sequential production growth of 5%-10% is well below its 14% forecast. The firm likes BRY's asset base but is ... John Hempton throws in the towel on his Linn Energy ( LINE ) short following yesterday's acquisition of Berry Petroleum ( BRY ). It's a swap of what Hempton believes is near-worthless stock for old, but valuable oil assets. Those assets can generate enough cash to keep what he believes is a Ponzi, ... Midday top 10 gainers: CBMX +115% . WH +85% . PRKR +48% . RPRX +31% . CLRX +26% . MKTG +23% . ALIM +20% . JAXB +17% . BRY +17% . CBR +15% . Midday top 10 losers: PAY -39% . GENT -23% . EBIX -23% . PATK -16% . XRSC -16% . CMGE -16% . CHLN -16% . RBCN -15% . RFMD -15% . ANTP -14% . Post your comment! Berry Petroleum ( BRY +2.6% ) reports production averaged 39.5K boe/day in Q4 and 36.4K boe/day for full-year 2012; expects year-end 2012 reserves of 276M boe. Plans a 2013 capital budget of $500M-$600M, which will continue to be invested in oil assets, and anticipates funding capex from internally ... May 24 (Reuters) - Berry Petroleum Co : * Moodys disclosures on credit ratings of Berry Petroleum Company * Rpt-moodys disclosures on credit ratings of berry petroleum company By Bret Jensen : One of the nice things about the recent market sell-off is that many equities have become undervalued. The energy sector has been particularly hit hard and offers multiple bargains. Here are two equities that have sold off, even though both have reasonable valuations and rapid EPS ... By Marc Courtenay : It's not everyday that you get to buy two energy companies for the price of one while both are "on sale" by more than 7%. That's why I'm writing this brief article to all our loyal readers. Linn Energy ( LINE ), which is in the process of buying Berry Petroleum ( BRY ), was ... By David White : WTI oil prices have fallen roughly 25% since the end of April. Natural gas prices have fallen roughly 50% (and sometimes more) from their high last summer of $4.97/MMBtu. This has put a big dent in most oil and gas companies' profits. Berry Petroleum ( BRY ) is one of those. Let's ...