High-quality reserves will drive your returns

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Despite the negative impact of U.S. tariffs on Canadian oil imports, the long-term outlook for Cenovus is bright. The company’s high-quality reserves will last 29 years, and its rising production will give it more cash to reward shareholders with higher dividends and share buybacks. CENOVUS ENERGY INC. $20 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CVE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $36.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cenovus.com) is now Canada’s third-largest producer of oil and natural gas after Canadian Natural Resources and Suncor. That follows its all-stock acquisition of rival oil producer Husky Energy Inc. (Toronto symbol HSE) on January 1, 2021. Cenovus’s oil sands operations in Alberta accounted for 77% of its crude production in the latest quarter, followed by conventional oil (15%) and offshore projects (8%). The company sends most of its crude oil production to its 50%-owned oil refineries in Illinois and Texas. Phillips 66 (New York symbol PSX) holds the…