RE:RE:RE:ENS goes from scary to a bargoon in two days"I suspect that if we hadn't seen such a good day for ENB, the SP of ENS would have fallen by quite a bit."
One would think that would be true, but the trading patterns often don't follow "what should be".
Most ENS investors have a passive interest in the stock at best. That is likely due to the fact of how it was presented to them when they first purchased the shares.
Almost all ENS shareholders have bought ENS on the advice of their brokers or they own the shares through a fund that they don't even know about.
The typical sales pitch from a broker has likely been easy to understand with emphasis on the safety and income:
"I can get you a piece of a new issue (no commission) today that is trading about 3% below the market price that I think would be a good fit for your portfolio. The shares pay $0.13 every month (tax advantages might be brought up here for certain clients) which is a great income producer as the yield is about 13%. Their only asset is ownership of shares in Enbridge which is essentially a utility that likely delivers natural gas to your home every month and sells gasoline at PetroCan gas stations and Canadian Tire. This is the type of investment where you can "set it and forget it" as the goal is to collect the dividend every month for years and not have to ever worry about it. Can I put you down for a thousand shares or would you like to take a bigger position to boost your income?"
Everything in the above sales pitch is true. However, it only presentst the good parts of the story. Astute brokers will be aware of the downside risk to owning a SPLIT and the HONEST brokers will tell you about the risks.
ENS is one of the best split share investments on the market imo because of the reliability of the ENB business and the relatively high yield vs the risk. Knowing that likely helps brokers deal with the lack of disclosure.
What clients likely don't know when they buy ENS via new issue is that the broker is likely earning about 3 times more on the trade than they earn on a regular trade. Maybe that has something to do with how $50 million SPLITS are continually getting put away overnight.
Brokers won't likely tell you that the only reason that the deal is available is due to the fact that the current price of ENS is so over-inflated above the NAV (too much detail to explain to a client) that the deal can cover the extraordinarily high commissions and the advisory and legal fees.
Gvien the above scenario, it shouldn't be any surprise that ENS investors are basically asleep at the wheel. As such, the share price doesn't move much either way when it should be going up or down in concert with the price movement in ENB.
The share price of ENB was up $2.42 from Wednesday to Friday this week. In an efficient market where ENS is priced accurately every day (which means investors are paying attention) the price of ENS should have moved up $2.42 * 0.44 = $1.06. Instead...crickets.
Experienced knows what he is talking about when he suggests a strategy of buying when the Premium is low and selling when the Premium is high if you want to avoid getting punched in the portfolio by Raises. Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the high yield knowing there is very little risk of ENS not paying a dividend.