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TRANSCANADA CORP. $48.05 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 709.0 million; Market cap: $34.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.3%; www.transcanada.com) has launched two legal challenges to the U.S. government’s recent decision to block its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would have pumped crude oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The company spent $4.3 billion on Keystone XL and now expects to write off between $2.5 billion and $2.9 billion of this total. TransCanada plans to appeal the U.S. decision under the North American Free Trade Agreement and will ask for $15 billion U.S. in damages. In a separate case, it will challenge the U.S. president’s authority to deny a construction permit....
MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $30.95 (Toronto symbol MBT; Shares outstanding: 79.3 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 4.2%; www.mts.ca) has completed the sale of its Allstream division to U.S.-based Zayo Group (New York symbol ZAYO). The company received $420.0 million, net of transaction costs. It will probably put the proceeds toward its long-term debt, which was $677.1 million as of September 30, 2015. That’s equal to 29% of its $2.4-billion market cap. Manitoba Telecom is still a hold.
MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $30.95 (Toronto symbol MBT; Shares outstanding: 79.3 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 4.2%; www.mts.ca) has completed the sale of its Allstream division to U.S.-based Zayo Group (New York symbol ZAYO). The company received $420.0 million, net of transaction costs. It will probably put the proceeds toward its long-term debt, which was $677.1 million as of September 30, 2015. That’s equal to 29% of its $2.4-billion market cap. Manitoba Telecom is still a hold....
IBM $124.72 (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 970.1 million; Market cap: $137.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.2%; www.ibm.com) reported better-than-expected results in its latest quarter. In the quarter ended December 31, 2015, revenue fell 8.5%, to $22.06 billion from $24.11 billion a year earlier. However, that beat the consensus of $22.04 billion. IBM gets 60% of its revenue from outside the U.S., and the higher U.S. dollar hurts the value of these sales. The company continues to expand in fastergrowing areas like cloud computing and analytics software. In the latest quarter, IBM’s cloud and analytics businesses increased their revenue by 16%. That revenue now accounts for 35% of the company’s total. It also helps offset weaker demand for IBM’s consulting services and mainframe computers....