Topic: How To Invest

Q: Pat: What’s your opinion on Canadian Natural Resources for a big oil and gas stock with a nice yield? Thank you.

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A: Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., $87.75, symbol CNQ on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.1 billion; Market cap: $94.7 billion; www.cnrl.com), is a producer of oil and natural gas in Western Canada, the U.K. sector of the North Sea and Offshore Africa. Overall, the product mix of its current 1.4 million barrels per day of production is about 74% oil and 26% natural gas. The company has grown with some major acquisitions over the last few years. Canadian Natural took advantage of “distressed” sales in early 2017, buying a 70% working interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project from Shell Canada and Marathon Oil. It also paid $12.7 billion to acquire 70% interest in the Scotford upgrader, which processes crude bitumen into synthetic crude oil. In 2019, Canadian Natural bought most of the assets of Devon Canada Corporation for $3.8 billion. Devon’s high-quality land and production sites were located in Western Canada and were within Canadian Natural’s core areas. The asset base consists of both…