Cenovus remains on track

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CENOVUS ENERGY, $27.82, is a buy for long-term gains. The company (Toronto symbol CVE; Shares outstanding: 1.9 billion; Market cap: $50.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.6%; www.cenovus.com) has evacuated some of the workers at its Sunrise oil sands project due to wildfires in Northern Alberta. Even so, the facility continues to operate at normal levels. That means that for all of 2024, Cenovus’s production will probably rise about 2% to 791,100 barrels a day. Combined with improving oil prices, the company’s cash flow could also jump 24% to $5.68 a share. The stock trades at just 4.8 times that forecast. That higher cash flow will also give Cenovus more room to continue increasing your dividend. With the June 2024 payment, the company raised the quarterly dividend by 28.6%, to $0.18 a share from $0.14. The new annual rate of $0.72 yields 2.6%. The company also paid a variable dividend of $0.135 a share on May 31, 2024. Cenovus is a buy. buy…