In fact, CN regularly reports an industry-leading operating ratio. The business generates significant free cash flow, and CN is generous when it comes to sharing the profits with investors. The company has a strong track record of share buybacks and boasts a compound annual dividend-growth rate of about 16% over the past 20 years. Long-term investors have done well with this stock. A $10,000 investment in CN two decades ago would be worth more than $200,000 today with the dividends reinvested. Enbridge Enbridge closed its $37 billion takeover of Spectra Energy earlier this year in a deal that created North America's largest energy infrastructure company. Spectra added strategic gas assets and provided a nice boost to the capital plan. Enbridge has about $31 billion in near-term developments on the go, of which about $22 billion should be completed by the end of 2020.