Topic: Dividend Stocks

PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $5.59 – Toronto symbol PGF

PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $5.59 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 507.1 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 8.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.pengrowth.com) has suffered from low natural gas prices, same as Encana. That’s why in May 2012 it bought NAL Energy Corp., which gets roughly half of its production from higher-priced oil. Thanks to this purchase, Pengrowth’s daily production rose 26.4% in the three months ended September 30, 2012, to a record 94,284 barrels of oil equivalent from 74,568 a year ago. Natural gas accounted for 60% of its production, down from 63% a year earlier.

Depressed natural gas prices pushed down Pengrowth’s cash flow by 6.2% in the quarter, to $141.1 million from $150.4 million a year earlier. Cash flow per share fell 39.1%, to $0.28 from $0.46, on more shares outstanding. Even so, the extra production from NAL should let Pengrowth keep paying monthly dividends of $0.04 a share (for an 8.6% annualized yield).

Pengrowth is still a buy.

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