These four oil stocks cut your risk

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Below are four oil producers that cut risk with their low costs and high-quality reserves. Although crude prices have moved down lately, we continue to recommend all investors maintain some exposure to oil stocks such as these. SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $44 (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; s/o: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $74.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Divd. yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. suncor.com) is Canada’s largest integrated oil company; its major projects are in Alberta’s oil sands, and the company owns four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado) as well as 1,500 Petro-Canada gas stations. In March 2016, Suncor completed its all-stock acquisition of Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. Including that firm’s debt of $2.6 billion, Suncor paid $7.1 billion. Canadian Oil Sands owns 36.74% of the Syncrude oil sands project in Alberta. Suncor later bought another 5.0% of Syncrude’s outstanding shares for $937 million. That has raised its stake to 53.74%. Mainly because of this purchase, the…