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Pembina Pipeline and Veresen both trade at high multiples to their per-share cash flow. But both have strong growth prospects and high dividend yields. We think they have further gains ahead. PEMBINA PIPELINE $52.77 (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares outstanding: 327.0 million; Market cap: $16.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 3.3%; www.pembina.com) owns pipelines that carry half of Alberta’s conventional oil, 30% of Western Canada’s natural gas liquids (NGLs) and almost all of B.C.’s conventional oil. Pembina bought rival Provident Energy, which extracts, transports and stores NGLs, for $3.2 billion in 2012....

Keyera Corp. $97.75, symbol KEY on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 83.9 million; Market cap: $8.2 billion; www.keyera.com), provides a number of services to the oil and gas industry, including gathering, processing, storage and transportation. In the three months ended June 30, 2014, the company reported cash flow of $1.04 a share, up 3.0% from $1.01 a year earlier. Keyera raised its monthly dividend by 7.5%, to $0.215 a share from $0.20, beginning with the June 2014 payment. The stock now yields 2.6%....

Surge Energy, $8.26, symbol SGY on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 217.5 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion; www.surgeenergy.ca), produces oil and gas in central and northwestern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. Its output is 84% oil and 16% gas. In the three months ended March 31, 2014, Surge produced 15,024 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up 55.9% from 9,636 barrels a year earlier. Acquisitions were the main reason for the gain. Cash flow jumped 109.2%, to $53.8 million from $25.7 million, on the increased output and higher realized oil and gas prices. However, per-share cash flow fell 13.9%, to $0.31 from $0.36, as the company issued more shares to pay for acquisitions, boosting the total number outstanding by 152%....

WAJAX CORP. $35.12 (Toronto symbol WJX; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (905-212-3300; www.wajax.ca; Shares outstanding:16.8 million; Market cap: $586.4 million; Dividend yield: 6.8%) sells and services cranes, forklifts and other heavy equipment. It also provides related parts (such as bearings, motors, hoses and fittings) and power systems (including diesel engines and transmissions). The company’s customers are in the natural resource, construction, manufacturing and transportation industries. In the three months ended March 31, 2014, Wajax’s revenue fell 1.5%, to $331.4 million from $336.3 million a year earlier. The decline mostly came from weakness in oil and gas and mining markets....

PENGROWTH ENERGY $7.35 (Toronto symbol PGF; Shares outstanding: 527.5 million; Market cap: $3.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.5%; www.pengrowth.com) produces oil and natural gas in Western Canada and off the Nova Scotia coast. Gas accounts for 55% of its production; the other 45% is oil.

Pengrowth produced 75,102 barrels a day (including gas) in the first quarter of 2014, down 16.3% from 89,702 a year earlier. That’s mainly because it sold several less important oil and gas properties in Western Canada. It’s investing the proceeds in more promising projects, including its Lindbergh oil sands development in Alberta’s Cold Lake region.

The company’s cash flow fell 6.9%, to $0.27 a share from $0.29.

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Beginning today, we launch Best Canadian Stocks, a feature which will appear every Tuesday as our daily post. We also launch a new approach—you will get our specific advice on whether to buy, hold or sell the stocks we profile, with a full explanation of how we arrived at our opinion. You will read about stocks making moves you should know about covered in one of our three newsletters featuring Canadian stocks—The Successful Investor, Stock Pickers Digest and Canadian Wealth Advisor. On Thursday, look for our first weekly feature on U.S. stocks, complete with our specific buy, hold and sell advice. PENGROWTH ENERGY (Toronto symbol PGF; www.pengrowth.com) produces oil and natural gas in Western Canada and off the Nova Scotia coast. Gas accounts for 55% of its production; the other 45% is oil....

PENGROWTH ENERGY $7.35 (Toronto symbol PGF; Shares outstanding: 527.5 million; Market cap: $3.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.5%; www.pengrowth.com) produces oil and natural gas in Western Canada and off the Nova Scotia coast. Gas accounts for 55% of its production; the other 45% is oil. Pengrowth produced 75,102 barrels a day (including gas) in the first quarter of 2014, down 16.3% from 89,702 a year earlier. That’s mainly because it sold several less important oil and gas properties in Western Canada. It’s investing the proceeds in more promising projects, including its Lindbergh oil sands development in Alberta’s Cold Lake region. The company’s cash flow fell 6.9%, to $0.27 a share from $0.29....

Long Run Exploration Ltd., $5.64, symbol LRE on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 149.6 million; Market cap: $860.1 million; www.longrunexploration.com), produces oil and natural gas in Alberta. Its output is 56% oil and 44% gas. In the three months ended March 31, 2014, Long Run produced 25,613 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up 8.5% from 23,611 barrels a year earlier. Cash flow per share jumped 43.6%, to $0.56 from $0.39. Higher production and oil prices were behind the increase. Long Run continues to grow by acquisition—it just announced the purchase of Crocotta Energy (Toronto symbol CTA) for $357 million. That deal will add about 7,500 barrels a day to Long Run’s output....

WAJAX CORP. $35.12 (Toronto symbol WJX; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (905-212-3300; www.wajax.ca; Shares outstanding:16.8 million; Market cap: $586.4 million; Dividend yield: 6.8%) sells and services cranes, forklifts and other heavy equipment. It also provides related parts (such as bearings, motors, hoses and fittings) and power systems (including diesel engines and transmissions).

The company’s customers are in the natural resource, construction, manufacturing and transportation industries.

In the three months ended March 31, 2014, Wajax’s revenue fell 1.5%, to $331.4 million from $336.3 million a year earlier. The decline mostly came from weakness in oil and gas and mining markets.

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Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific advice on specific stocks as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. While we reserve our buy-hold-sell advice for Inner Circle members, these excerpts provide a great deal of information and analysis on stocks we’ve covered for members of Pat’s Inner Circle. This week we had a question from an Inner Circle member on two Canadian energy stocks. In spite of its name, Tourmaline Oil has 85% of its output in natural gas. Whitecap Resources has the greater part of its production in oil. Both companies enjoy rising production—in Whitecap’s case, spurred in part by acquisitions. Pat examines both companies’ prospects for continued production increases and whether their share prices—and Whitecap’s dividend—can keep on rising. Q: Hi Pat: Can I have your view on Tourmaline Oil and Whitecap Resources? Thanks....