Topic: How To Invest

The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, November 1, 2024

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CENOVUS ENERGY INC., $21.89, Toronto symbol CVE, remains a buy for the Resources section of your portfolio. The company is now Canada’s third-largest producer of oil and natural gas after Canadian Natural Resources and Suncor (see next Hotline item). That follows its all-stock acquisition of rival oil producer Husky Energy Inc. (Toronto symbol HSE) on January 1, 2021. It also operates refineries in Canada and the U.S. Cenovus’s production in the three months ended September 30, 2024, fell 3.2% to 771,300 barrels a day (82% oil, 18% gas) from 797,000 barrels a year earlier. That was mainly due to planned maintenance at its Christina Lake oil sands facility. As well, the benchmark price for Canadian oil sands crude declined 11.3%. As a result, revenue in the quarter fell 2.3%, to $14.25 billion from $14.58 billion. However, that beat the consensus forecast of $13.8 billion. Cash flow also dropped 43.1%, to $1.96 billion from $3.45 billion; cash flow per share declined at a slower rate…