CENOVUS ENERGY $33.41 - Toronto symbol CVE

CENOVUS ENERGY $33.41 (Toronto symbol CVE; Shares outstanding: 756.9 million; Market cap: $25.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 3.2%; www.cenovus.com) gets 40% of its output from its Alberta oil sands projects. Conventional oil and gas supplies 60%.

U.S.-based ConocoPhillips (New York symbol COP) owns 50% of Cenovus’s main Foster Creek and Christina Lake oil sands projects.

In the quarter ended June 30, 2014, cash flow per share jumped 36.5%, to $1.57 from $1.15 a year ago.

Total production rose 17.8%, to 201,688 barrels a day from 171,127 barrels. The gain was due to a 33.1% jump in oil sands output, to 124,827 barrels a day from 93,797.

Cenovus is a buy.

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