Here are key updates on 3 dividend payers: Pembina, Toromont & Intel

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PEMBINA PIPELINE CORP. $50 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 579.5 million; Market cap: $29.0 billion; Dividend yield: 5.5%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.pembina.com) operates pipelines that carry half of Alberta’s conventional oil and almost all of B.C.’s oil. The company has paid dividends continuously since 1997. With the June 2024 payment, your quarterly dividend increased by 3.4%, to $0.69 a share from $0.6675. The annual rate of $2.76 yields a high 5.5%. On April 1, 2024, Pembina completed its $3.1 billion acquisition of Enbridge’s (see page 61) 50% interest in the Alliance Pipeline, a 3,848 kilometre natural gas gathering and transmission pipeline system. It also acquired Enbridge’s 42.7% interest in the Aux Sable NGLs (natural gas liquids) extraction and fractionation facilities in Canada and U.S., and a 50% stake in NRGreen Power, a joint venture operating five waste heat recovery facilities along the Canadian portion of the Alliance pipeline. The new businesses should raise Pembina’s…