Canadian Natural Rsrcs (CNQ.TO)

(Market Call Minute) It’s a good story, but is heavy oil and he wanted to take his energy weighting down. Hold at best, but more likely a sell.

Cheap and generates cash flow. Pays a nice dividend. If this is in your TFSA and you are looking out a few years, this is a fine place to be. Smart management.

A very dominant producer in the western Canada space. International operations in the North Sea and West Africa. Extremely well managed. Have grown very well through solid management and corporate acquisitions. Very low cost production at $50 a barrel. Enormous stream of future expected cash flow. $5.5 billion to $6.5 billion. Dividend yield of 1.95%, which should grow by 10% a year over the next few years.

Their cost of production is about $50 vs. new companies at $75. There is a head and shoulders development on the stock chart. If we take out the lows over the last month that could trigger another round of technical selling. Our next best buying opportunity would be about 5% lower.

A really great, great profile and pretty cheap on price to cash flow if you are willing to look 1-2 years out. A premier play in Canada with massive production. Also, benefits from a tightening differential between the Canadian oil price and West Texas. Likes this one a lot. A great stock to own.

(A Top Pick Aug 26/13. Up 51.67%.) Spent a good part of 2013 in the penalty box. A very, very well-managed company. Diversified across natural gas, heavy oil and light oil. Growing dividend and growing production. This is still a Buy at current levels.

(Market Call Minute) It is on her watch list.

It is pretty viable right down to the $50 range for oil. It is a legacy producer. It is pretty sustainable at that rate. It is a bench mark name that people follow widely. It is a proxy for oil to many people. He would not sell at this point. Doesn’t see much down side at this point.

Sold his holdings recently. Had a great run from the low $30’s. Heavy oil spreads have tightened, which has benefited them. Valuations in the sector have gone higher. He would look to buy this back again in the low $40’s. Still a good, long term growth story.

The energy sector, particularly the energy exploration and production industry, tends to have 2 periods of seasonal strength. The first one is from January all the way through to May. The next period is just approaching, basically the last half of summer all the way through to Labour Day. The average gain for August and mid-September is about 5%. Trends are still very much positive. 1.9% dividend yield.

One of his favourite stocks. He is kicking himself for not having bought in. In the next 12-18 months with a pipeline expansion, you are talking about a million more barrels of throughput.

Among the seniors of the oil/gas producers and have a huge following. Has always been extremely well-managed. Lately this has had a very, very good run. Wouldn’t be jumping in at these levels.

Some stocks have run too far while others have already had a correction. This one could go back to $43 and then it would be a buy.

Spinning off tons of cash. One of the largest senior producers in Western Canada, and produce about a million barrels of oil a day. Phase 2 expansion in Horizon as well as its thermal projects, gives it a really good line of sight for amping up its production with another 250 million barrels by 2017. This will mean an extra $2 billion per year of free cash flow available, which could be used for increasing dividends or further asset purchases. Also, have a nice handful of royalty assets that could be spun out. Yield of 1.89%.

Chart shows the trend has been upwards. This has a lot of positive technical things that you want to see in a Canadian energy stock. The 1^st period of strength is late January right through until May. It then takes a break, and around the 3^rd or 4^th week of July it has another move on the upside. Look for this one to stabilize around current levels, but look for another opportunity to add as you get into late July.