In recent months, several oil and gas E&P (exploration and production) firms have been negatively affected by souring investor sentiments. Despite oil trading in a fairly narrow range and due in part to natural gas prices plummeting, many of the companies in the space have been hit. Fortunately, one thing that investors can be sure of is that, at the end of the day, fundamentals will prevail. In its own latest quarterly release, for example, the management team at HighPoint Resources (HPR), one of the hardest-hit companies in the space recently, showed that