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CENOVUS ENERGY INC. $20 (Toronto symbol CVE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 833.3 million; Market cap: $16.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 3.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cenovus.com) has cut jobs in response to sharply lower oil and natural gas prices. It has also lowered its 2015 capital spending by 40%, to between $1.8 billion and $1.9 billion. These moves, along with more efficient drilling, will save it $400 million in 2015, up from its earlier forecast of $280 million. Cenovus now plans more job cuts, which should save it a further $100 million a year starting in 2016. Meanwhile, Cenovus’s oil production rose 5.7% in the three months ended September 30, 2015, to 210,422 barrels a day from 199,089 a year earlier. That’s due to the start up of new phases at its 50%-owned Foster Creek and Christina Lake oil sands projects in northern Alberta; U.S.-based ConocoPhillips (New York symbol COP) owns the other 50%....
The new Liberal government in Ottawa plans to spend more on roads, bridges and public transit over the next three years. SNC-Lavalin, below, is already working on big public works projects, including a transit line in Toronto and a bridge in Montreal, so it should gain from this new spending. The Liberals are also in favour of certain new pipelines, which should help ShawCor (see next article). SNC-LAVALIN GROUP INC. $42 (Toronto symbol SNC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 149.8 million; Market cap: $6.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 2.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.snclavalin.com) is narrowing its focus to engineering projects in the oil and gas, mining and water-treatment industries....
SHAWCOR LTD. $28 (Toronto symbol SCL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 64.5 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend yield: 2.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.shawcor.com) makes sealants and coatings that keep oil and gas pipelines from rusting. It also manufactures industrial products, such as electrical wire and protective sheaths. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, ShawCor’s revenue rose 3.4%, to $485.4 million from $469.6 million a year earlier. Favourable exchange rates added $42.5 million to its revenue in the latest quarter. Earnings gained 21.3%, to $38.1 million from $31.4 million. Per-share profits rose 15.7%, to $0.59 from $0.51, on fewer shares outstanding. As of September 30, 2015, ShawCor’s backlog was $556 million. Its strong reputation should keep helping it win contracts; it has a total of $600 million worth of bids underway on new jobs....
MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $29 (Toronto symbol MBT; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 78.9 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 4.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mtsallstream.com) has expanded its recent restructuring plan, under which it is cutting 25% of its Allstream subsidiary’s workforce and lowering this business’s capital spending by 20% to 30%. Allstream sells phone and Internet services to companies across Canada. Manitoba Telecom now aims to improve the performance of its MTS division, which has 1.3 million phone, wireless and TV customers in Manitoba. The company will cut jobs and capital spending at MTS and use some of the savings to improve its customer service and billing processes. Restructuring MTS should cut Manitoba Telecom’s annual costs by up to $25 million. To put that in context, it earned $26.7 million, or $0.34 a share, in the third quarter of 2015....