Suncor Energy Inc. T.SU

Alternate Symbol(s): SU

Energy Oil & Gas Integrated

Suncor Energy Inc. is a Canada-based integrated energy company. The Company's segments include Oil Sands, Exploration and Production (E&P), and Refining and Marketing. Its operations include oil sands development, production and upgrading, offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining in Canada and the United States and its Petro-Canada retail and wholesale distribution networks, including Canada’s Electric Highway, a coast-to-coast network of fast-charging electric vehicles (EV) stations. Petro-Canada has a network of over 1,800 retail and wholesale locations across Canada, providing customers with a wide variety of fuel and service offerings including low-carbon fuel options. It is developing petroleum resources while advancing the transition to a low-emissions future through investment in power and renewable fuels. It also wholly owns the Fort Hills Project, which is located in Alberta's Athabasca region, approximately 90 kilometers north of Fort McMurray.

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Comment by Bigbear7405on Aug 02, 2021 2:34pm

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Let me explain it to you in words you understand. A dividend is a liability. A liability. When you buyback shares you are reducing this liability. When Liabilities go down the company is better of as they are not paying a dividend on the shares repurchased. How much money are they not paying annually now that 30 million shares have been cancelled?. A million or so. This million can be used to pay down debt which improves the balance sheet. By the end of this year they will have bought back 75 million shares, with a hundred not far behind. That would be be a savings of around 3.2 million in not just the current year but ever year after that. This money can be used to reduce debt which again improves the balance sheet.

Chris007 wrote: Paying down debt strengthens the balance sheet...

However, anyone who spent day in an accounting class knows that buybacks DO everything to strenghten the balance sheet. It merely reduces shares outstanding (treasury stock debited, cash credited)...therefore, technically giving the remaining shares outstanding a "bigger piece of the pie"

Bigbear7405 wrote: Paying of debt and share buybacks strengthens the balance sheet. Giving all the profits to higher dividend is not strengthening their balance sheet. anyone who has spent a day in an accounting class would know this.

PabloLafortune wrote: Buybacks are simply put financial engineering which is putting the cart in front of the horse - its kind of ludicrous that this is Suncor's raison d'etre for the next 12 months Makes you wonder if Wall/Bay street are running the show - we know the mom and pops arent thats for sure. Ask Intel $100B in buybacks later if that served them well? It didnt it was a disaster and everyone knows it. #2, Suncor is lagging all its peers in the past 6 months even though Suncor is recovery leveraged so the environmental argument doesn't hold water - bottom line investors dont have confidence in management eg Fort Hills. Anyway I'll be unloading my shares in the near future and will no longer be posting here.