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Veresen (TSX:VSN.PR.E.PFD) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities : C$191.00 Mil (As of Jun. 2017)


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What is Veresen Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities?

Veresen's quarterly cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities increased from Dec. 2016 (C$108.00 Mil) to Mar. 2017 (C$163.00 Mil) and increased from Mar. 2017 (C$163.00 Mil) to Jun. 2017 (C$191.00 Mil).

Veresen's annual cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities declined from Dec. 2014 (C$51.00 Mil) to Dec. 2015 (C$41.00 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2015 (C$41.00 Mil) to Dec. 2016 (C$108.00 Mil).


Veresen Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Historical Data

The historical data trend for Veresen's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Veresen Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Chart

Veresen Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities
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Veresen Quarterly Data
Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17
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Veresen Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.

Marketable Securities are very liquid securities that can be converted into cash quickly at a reasonable price.


Veresen  (TSX:VSN.PR.E.PFD) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Explanation

Marketable securities are very liquid as they tend to have maturities of less than one year. Furthermore, the rate at which these securities can be bought or sold has little effect on their prices.

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.


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Veresen (TSX:VSN.PR.E.PFD) Business Description

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Veresen Inc is an energy infrastructure company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It owns and operates energy infrastructure assets across North America. The Company operates in three business segments, Pipelines, Midstream, and Power. The Company's Pipelines segment owns a 1,330-kilometre pipeline system that transports purity ethane from various Alberta ethane extraction plants to Alberta's major petrochemical complexes located near Joffre and Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta; and also owns a 3,000-kilometre natural gas pipeline comprised of a mainline and various connecting lateral pipelines. This pipeline extends from northeastern B.C. to points near Chicago, Illinois. It's Midstream Business segment is comprised of two natural gas processing plants with combined functional capacity of 516 mmcf/d, as well as approximately 40,000 horsepower of compression and 370 km of gas gathering lines and is located in the Cutbank Ridge region of Alberta and British Columbia. The Hythe plant processes both sour and sweet natural gas, while the Steeprock plant is a sour gas processing facility. While, its Power Business segment operates, a Gas-Fired Generation facility consisting of an 86-MW cogeneration facility located in Windsor, Ontario; 17-MW cogeneration facility located in London, Ontario; 49-MW cogeneration facility located in Ripon, California; 44-MW cogeneration facility located in Pomona, California; and 70-MW combined cycle power cogeneration facility located in Brush, Colorado; an district energy system that produces and distributes steam and chilled water fueled primarily by natural gas, located in London, Ontario; and a district energy system that produces and distributes steam, hot water and electricity fueled primarily by biomass and waste fuel, located in Charlottetown, P.E.I.; a Run-of-River Hydro facility that produces a 33-MW run-of-river hydroelectric power located on the Black River near Watertown, New York; an 11-MW run-of-river power facility located 30 km north of Vancouver, B.C.; two 5-MW waste-heat power generation facilities located at Spectra pipeline's 150 Mile House and Savona, B.C. compressor stations; and a 33-MW wind project under construction in the County of Huron, Ontario; and also operates two wind power facilities, 9-MW and 11-MW, respectively, near Grand Valley, Ontario.

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