Output bolsters Crescent

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CRESCENT POINT ENERGY $10.52 (Toronto symbol CPG; Shares outstanding: 545.0 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.4%; www.crescentpointenergy. com) produces oil and natural gas in Western Canada. It is now focused on its Bakken light oil development in southeastern Saskatchewan. In the three months ended September 30, 2017, the company’s daily output rose 9.6%, to 176,069 barrels of oil equivalent from 160,610. Crescent Point’s cash flow improved 5.7%, to $389.0 million from $368.1 million a year earlier. Cash flow per share fell 1.4%, to $0.71 from $0.72, on more shares outstanding. The stock trades at just 3.1 times the company’s forecast 2018 cash flow per share of $3.38. Those shares yield 3.4%. Crescent Point Energy is a buy. buy…