Suncor is poised to reward investors

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Even though oil demand and prices continue to rebound from last year’s COVID-19-induced lows, Suncor’s shares have suffered. That’s partly due to problems that will delay the ramp-up of its Fort Hills oil sands project in northern Alberta. However, cost savings from Suncor’s takeover of the day-to-day operations of the Syncrude project should give it more cash for share buybacks and dividends. SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $25 remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $37.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. Those properties should last 29 years. It also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with 1,875 Petro-Canada gas stations. In March 2016, the company acquired Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. in an all-stock transaction; that firm owned 36.74% of the Syncrude oil sands project in northern Alberta…