TRANSCANADA CORP. $42.76 - Toronto symbol TRP

TRANSCANADA CORP. $42.76 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 704.2 million; Market cap: $30.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.1%; www.transcanada.com) has won a contract to build and operate a $4-billion, 700-kilometre pipeline for Shell Canada and its partners Korea Gas, Mitsubishi and PetroChina.

The pipeline will pump natural gas from the Montney region of eastern B.C. to a proposed liquefied natural gas facility at the port of Kitimat, B.C. From there, tanker ships will transport the liquefied gas to customers in Asia.

TransCanada aims to begin operating the new line by 2020.

TransCanada is a buy.

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