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Posted on 31/08/07

For Petrocan investors, too much cash can be a bad thing

Fabrice Taylor writes research for brokerage firm Pollitt & Co. The views expressed are his own.

As problems go, Petro-Canada's is an enviable one: too much money. That sounds like the kind of trouble an investor would like. It isn't necessarily so, however, because the company has few options for deploying its abundance of cash flow. When excess money marries limited opportunity, the offspring are usually ugly.

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