Updating your Cyclical-Growth Payers: Imperial Oil

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IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $60 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol IMO; Cyclical-Growth Payer Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 636.7 million; Market cap: $46.2 billion; Dividend yield: 2.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.imperialoil.ca) gets about 60% of its production from oil sands operations in Alberta. Imperial also has conventional oil and natural gas operations in the West and holds a stake in various projects off the coast of Atlantic Canada. The company’s other operations include three refineries (one in Alberta, two in Ontario) and a petrochemical plant in Sarnia, Ontario. It also supplies gasoline to over 2,000 Esso and Mobil gas stations in Canada. ExxonMobil (New York symbol XOM) owns 69.6% of the company’s shares. With the April 2022 payment, Imperial raised your quarterly dividend by 25.9%, to $0.34 a share from $0.27. The new annual rate of $1.36 yields 2.3%. Imperial and Exxon have now agreed to sell their 50/50 joint venture, XTO Energy Canada, to Whitecap Resources Inc. (Toronto symbol WCP). XTO produces oil…