Cash flow steady despite asset sales

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PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $2.07 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 547.4 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend suspended in January 2016; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.pengrowth.com) produces oil and natural gas in Western Canada and off the coast of Nova Scotia. The company continues to sell less-important assets as it focuses on its Lindbergh oil sands project in Alberta. As a result, its average daily production in the third quarter of 2016 fell 25.7%, to 55,137 barrels (61% oil and liquids, 39% gas) from 74,239 a year earlier. Thanks to lower operating costs and oil price hedging gains, cash flow per share was unchanged at $0.22. Pengrowth is still a hold. hold…