Veresen focuses on pipelines

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VERESEN $13.07 (Toronto symbol VSN; Shares outstanding: 313.6 million; Market cap: $4.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 7.7%; www.vereseninc.com) reported strong cash flow of $0.33 a share in the three months ended September 30, 2016. That’s up 32.0% from $0.25 a year earlier. The company will move ahead with the sale of its power generation business to focus on pipelines and gas processing. Veresen expects to complete the deal in the first half of 2017. The sale could bring in as much as $1 billion. The company feels that its area of expertise is pipelines. As well, many new renewable energy projects have started up, and Veresen believes they will cut the returns it can make from power generation. Its current $1.00 a share annual dividend rate yields a high 7.7%. Veresen is a buy. buy…