ENBRIDGE INC. $43 (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 826.0 million; Market cap: $35.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) is extending its Woodland pipeline, which will let it pump more bitumen from the recently opened Kearl oil sands project in northern Alberta to refineries and other pipelines in Edmonton. Imperial Oil (see above) owns 71% of Kearl; Exxon owns the remaining 29%.
The company will spend $1.3 billion on this project, which should begin operating in the third quarter of 2015.
Enbridge is a buy.