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EnbridgeENB.TOHOLDNov 29, 2023Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 19, 2026. Market Open.
Largest pipeline operator in North America. ~7% yield very strong. Expected to continue growing dividend. Recent weakness in energy prices reason for share price weakness. Assets very valuable as hard to replicated. Pause and/or falling interest rates will be good for business. Good for income oriented investors.
He doesn't think a 5% weighting in a stock is crazy, it's very reasonable. If you have a lot of conviction in those companies, then that's where your weighting should be. Yield is around 7%. Won't reduce the dividend unless something really terrible happens. Extremely mature company, will grow with GDP plus or minus, highly levered.
Investors own for the dividend. He wouldn't overweight his portfolio with it, but makes sense for a certain demographic.
Difficult couple of years with interest rates. Big acquisition required issuing equity and taking on debt. Acquisition needs to be integrated, but they're pros at that. Diversifies its business. Stock's bounced back since then. No problem maintaining dividend. Becoming more US-focused, Canada's regulations make things too difficult.
ENB raised its dividend 3.1%; and re-iterated guidance for the current year. It had previously released 3Q earnings which did beat estimates, so today's news is not overly surprising. But the dividend bump is nice and will likely calm some nervous investors who were perhaps concerned about the dividend (we were not). ENB expects decent growth in 2024.
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