Enbridge gains from its new assets

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ENBRIDGE INC. $60 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 2.2 billion; Market cap: $132.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.6; Dividend yield: 6.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada to eastern Canada and the U.S. It also distributes gas to 3.8 million consumers in Ontario and Quebec. Enbridge has now completed its acquisition of three regulated gas utility firms—they serve roughly 3 million customers in Ohio, North Carolina, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming—from Dominion Energy, Inc. (New York symbol D). If you include their debt of $4.6 billion U.S., the price was $14.0 billion U.S. The new operations lifted Enbridge’s revenue in the quarter ended September 30, 2024, by 51.2%, to $14.88 billion from $9.84 billion a year earlier. Distributable cash flow (DCF) in the quarter gained 0.9%, to $2.60 billion from $2.57 billion. DCF per share, nonetheless, fell 11.3%, to $1.19 from $1.26, on more shares…