Updating your dividend payers: Pembina Pipeline Corp., 3M Company and Ford Motor Co.

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PEMBINA PIPELINE CORP., $47, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 510.0 million; Market cap: $24.0 billion; Dividend yield: 5.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.pembina.com) has agreed to acquire Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. (Toronto symbol KML) for $2.3 billion. That firm owns crude oil storage and terminal businesses at Edmonton and Vancouver wharves. It also holds a terminal in the Port of Vancouver that imports and exports bulk commodities like grain. (Note—the deal does not include the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, which Kinder Morgan Canada sold, along with its proposed second line, to the federal government last year for $4.5 billion.) Investors will also benefit from another Pembina transaction: It will now buy the U.S. portion of the Cochin pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $1.546 billion U.S. in cash. That will increase the company’s stake in the pipeline to 100%. Cochin pumps natural gas liquids between Alberta and Chicago. Following those transactions, Pembina plans to increase its…