Enbridge Inc. has announced:
that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem its currently outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series D (Series D Shares) (TSX: ENB.PR.D) on March 1, 2023. As a result, subject to certain conditions, the holders of the Series D Shares have the right to convert all or part of their Series D Shares on a one-for-one basis into Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series E of Enbridge (Series E Shares) on March 1, 2023. Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series D Shares into Series E Shares will retain their Series D Shares.
The foregoing conversion right is subject to the conditions that: (i) if Enbridge determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series D Shares outstanding after March 1, 2023, then all remaining Series D Shares will automatically be converted into Series E Shares on a one-for-one basis on March 1, 2023; and (ii) alternatively, if Enbridge determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series E Shares outstanding after March 1, 2023, no Series D Shares will be converted into Series E Shares. There are currently 18,000,000 Series D Shares outstanding.
With respect to any Series D Shares that remain outstanding after March 1, 2023, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly fixed cumulative preferential cash dividends, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Enbridge. The new annual dividend rate applicable to the Series D Shares for the five-year period commencing on March 1, 2023 to, but excluding, March 1, 2028 will be 5.412 percent, being equal to the five-year Government of Canada bond yield of 3.042 percent determined as of today plus 2.37 percent in accordance with the terms of the Series D Shares.
With respect to any Series E Shares that may be issued on March 1, 2023, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly floating rate cumulative preferential cash dividends, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Enbridge. The dividend rate applicable to the Series E Shares for the three-month floating rate period commencing on March 1, 2023 to, but excluding, June 1, 2023 will be 1.71901 percent, based on the annual rate on three month Government of Canada treasury bills for the most recent treasury bills auction of 4.45 percent plus 2.37 percent in accordance with the terms of the Series E Shares (the Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate). The Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate will be reset every quarter.
Beneficial holders of Series D Shares who wish to exercise their right of conversion during the conversion period, which runs from January 30, 2023 until 5:00 p.m. (EST) on February 14, 2023, should communicate as soon as possible with their broker or other intermediary for more information. It is recommended that this be done well in advance of the deadline in order to provide the broker or other intermediary time to complete the necessary steps. Any notices received after this deadline will not be valid.
ENB.PR.D is a FixedReset, 4.00%+237, that commenced trading 2011-11-23 after being announced 2011-11-14. It reset to 4.46% in 2018; I recommended against conversion; and there was no conversion. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ but relegated to the Scraps – FixedReset (Discount) subindex due to credit concerns.
Thanks to Assiduous Readers niagara and Fuzzybear for bringing this to my attention!
Any thoughts on converting Enb.pr.d to enb.pf.e?
Per IVT, ENB.PR.D is the most expensive series (of all ENB series). ENB.PR.G is the cheapest.
on series e I get 6.82 percent on a $25 price so that would be around 9 percent on 18.92 current price, what screws me up is the mentioning of the 1.71 percent. can somebody decipher this. also would converting be in ones interest or not
what screws me up is the mentioning of the 1.71
The annual rate is “4.45 percent plus 2.37 percent” as stated in the press release, total 6.82%.
The mention of 1.71% is from the sentence (bolding added):
So the Annual Rate is 6.82%, but the Quarterly Rate is 1.71%. There’s a little bit of rounding going on here and, possibly, day-count conventions which I have not checked against the prospectus.
The March 1, 2023 dividend payout was based on the previous 4.46% annual rate and was not reset to 5.412%. Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this is?
The March 1, 2023 dividend payout was based on the previous 4.46% annual rate and was not reset to 5.412%. Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this is?
Dividends are paid in arrears.