Prima Noce

Prima Noce or the “droit de seigneur” is an ancient practice that seems to have no purpose but to assert power or sovereignty and perhaps create royal bastards with leadership or warrior pretensions. Policy makers and the government were last in the bedrooms of the nation in the 1980’s and gave us a number of ill-fated enterprises such as the National Energy Program (NEP) and the glorious but ultimately failed Petro-Canada (now owned 100% by Suncor) not to mention some recent (1999) tinkering with the Bank Act which released the flood gates to “financial weapons of wealth destruction”.

Fortunately, as investors, we know how to deal with it and have described our helpful and appropriate responses to investment issues in a number of our recent Posts. Please see, for example, The New Mercantilism and The All Canadian Four Play, both in October 2012, as well as the many references to the companies currently affected.

Exhibit 1: (B)(N) SU Suncor Energy Incorporated – Price Chart

Suncor Energy Inc produces a number of refinery feedstock, diesel fuel and by-products by developing its resource leases in the Athabasca oil sands in northeastern Alberta and upgrading the bitumen extracted at its plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta.

(Please Click on the Chart to make it larger if required.)

Suncor currently has a market value of $50 billion and pays dividends of $800 million per year on 1.5 billion shares ($0.50 per share). From the Chart, of course, we can see that we have not owned it since between $25 and $32 in 2009 (with some hope in 2011 that didn’t last very long) and the stock price is about the same now as it was in January ($35).

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