Topic: How To Invest

PENGROWTH ENERGY TRUST $9.33 – Toronto symbol PGF.UN

PENGROWTH ENERGY TRUST $9.33 (Toronto symbol PGF.UN; Units outstanding: 257.8 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; SI Rating: Average) produces oil and gas in western Canada and off the Nova Scotia coast. Its average daily production of 80,284 barrels of oil equivalent is weighted 51% to oil and 49% to natural gas.

Pengrowth’s revenue fell 29.4% in the three months ended March 31, 2009, to $323 million from $457.6 million. Cash flow per unit fell 57.5%, to $0.37 from $0.87. Low oil and gas prices also prompted Pengrowth to cut production.

Pengrowth’s $1.7-billion long-term debt is a somewhat high 71% of its market cap. But it’s just over three years’ cash flow. The trust distributed 82% of its cash flow as distributions in the latest quarter, but it should average about 62% this year. The units trade at 4.2 times Pengrowth’s estimated 2009 cash flow of $2.20 per unit. The trust yields 12.9%.

Pengrowth is still a buy.

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