transcanada

TRANSCANADA CORP. $60.38 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 702.5 million; Market cap: $48.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.7%; www.transcanada.com) operates 90,300 kilometres of natural gas pipelines and generates over 3,100 megawatts of power in Canada and the U.S....

TRANSCANADA CORP. $57.90 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 702.0 million; Market cap: $40.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.transcanada.com) will build a new 800- kilometre natural gas pipeline in Mexico.

The project—called Sur de Texas-Tuxpan- —will cost $2.1 billion U.S....

TRANSCANADA CORP. $57.90 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 702.0 million; Market cap: $40.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.transcanada.com) will build a new 800- kilometre natural gas pipeline in Mexico.

The project—called Sur de Texas-Tuxpan- —will cost $2.1 billion U.S....

TRANSCANADA CORP., $55.59, Toronto symbol TRP, announced this week that it will build a new 800-kilometre natural gas pipeline in Mexico.

The project—called Sur de Texas-Tuxpan—will cost $2.1 billion U.S. and is part of a new joint venture agreement with Sempra Energy (New York symbol SRE).

The company will contribute $1.3 billion U.S....

TRANSCANADA CORP. $55.23 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 702.4 million; Market cap: $38.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.1%; www.transcanada.com) has received the final permits necessary for its $4.8 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline....

POWER CORP. $29.45 (Toronto symbol POW; Shares outstanding: 414.4 million; Market cap: $13.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.powercorporation.com) holds its financial assets through its 65.7% stake in Power Financial....

As an Inner Circle member, you’re no doubt familiar with our three-part investment advice. One of those key points is to invest mainly in well-established dividend-paying stocks. (The other two parts are to downplay stocks in the broker/media limelight and spread your money across most if not all the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities.)

With today’s low interest rates, investors continue to pay a lot of attention to dividend yields....

Maple Leaf Foods raised its earnings—and share buybacks—in the latest quarter through higher pricing, but its new focus on healthier meats should also boost future sales.

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Instead, rather than ―buy and hold‖, we prefer a “buy and watch closely” strategy....

TRANSCANADA CORP. $52 (Toronto symbol TRP; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 702.4 million; Market cap: $36.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.2; Dividend yield: 4.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.transcanada.com) has received the final permits necessary for its $4.8 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline. It would pump natural gas from northeastern B.C. to a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Kitimat, B.C. From there, tankers would ship the LNG to Asia. The companies behind the LNG plant will make a final decision by the end of 2016. If they proceed, TransCanada will begin building the pipeline and related facilities in early 2017. TransCanada is a buy.