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Canadian infrastructure name. She owns for income in client portfolios. Robust business model. Often has long-term, take-or-pay contracts; visible cashflow stream. Guided that it can grow EBITDA (cashflows) by single digits over next few years. She'd expect dividend increases to reflect that.
Stock's pulled back with underlying commodity prices. Should have lower volatility than energy producers. Yield is ~6%.
Q1 EPS of $1.03 beat estimates of 96c; revenue of $18.5B beat estimates handily. EBITDA of $5.82B beat estimates by 4.9%. 2025 guidance was affirmed. It was a broad 'beat' across the board. EBITDA rose 18%. EPS rose 12%. Distributable cash rose 9.1%. We would consider the results very strong.
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We now have a gateway to Asia. With tariffs, Canadian energy will not be welcome in the US. Integrated nature of its pipelines make it a long-term asset with growth capabilities that will reward shareholders well. Buy when it goes on sale, trim any gains. Good place to be, core holding for him.
Where will supply shift? This year, the Canadian E&Ps are outproducing all other international E&Ps, including Europe, US or Australia. He also bought ENB, which delivers the crude oil to the US. The US refiners have an insatiable need for Canadian oil. There's a 10% tariff on Canadian oil. Well, guess what--the Canadian oil companies are not eating the tariff, but rather the US refiners. If there's a shift in supply (given Mideast tensions), Canada will be able to supply that oil. US energy companies have a -12% earnings estimate this year vs. Canadian energy of only -0.20%
Mastered Limited Partnerships were very popular for a while, but have been under a lot of pressure over the last year or 2. Feels this company has been dragged down with that. Their revenues are largely contracted so there are not real issues in the short term, but the multiples have been compressing. They have lots of growth prospects in pipelines, but people are worried that they’ll need to raise equity and the plans will get shelved which brings down the multiple. Reasonably priced, but it is going to take a change in sentiment before it turns around.