Cenovus raises more cash

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CENOVUS ENERGY $12.26 (Toronto symbol CVE; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $15.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.6%; www.cenovus.com) continues to sell assets to pay down its $12.5 billion debt. That’s equal to a high 83% of its market cap. The company recently sold its Pelican Lake heavy oil operations in northern Alberta to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (Toronto symbol CNQ) for $975 million. Cenovus has also agreed to sell its Suffield conventional oil and natural gas property in southeastern Alberta to International Petroleum Corp. for $512 million. In addition, the company aims to sell its Pallister (Alberta) and Weyburn (Saskatchewan) properties this year. Those deals would give it an additional $3.6 billion for debt repayments. Cenovus Energy is a buy. buy…