It’s now time for you to buy Enbridge

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We’ve long admired Enbridge for its high-quality operations that give it plenty of cash for your dividends. However, we held off recommending it for new buying in the past few years due to its complex holding company structure and uncertainty over its February 2017 purchase of rival pipeline operator Spectra Energy for $37 billion in stock. The company has now acquired full control of four affiliated firms that operate some of its pipelines and sold $8 billion of its less-important assets. Those moves put it in a much stronger position to build new pipelines without issuing more shares and diluting the interest of existing shareholders. As well, those new operations will let Enbridge continue to reward investors with higher dividends. ENBRIDGE INC. $52 is now a buy. The stock (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $104.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 6.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) grants you exposure to pipelines pumping oil…