New pipelines enhance Keystone project

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TRANSCANADA CORP. $38 (Toronto symbol TRP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 690.0 million; Market cap: $26.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.2; Dividend yield: 4.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.transcanada.com) has received enough commitments from oil shippers to build a new pipeline from Montana and North Dakota to oil-storage facilities in Cushing, Oklahoma. This pipeline will cost $140 million. TransCanada also plans to build a $70-million pipeline from Cushing to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. To put these costs in context, TransCanada earned $374 million, or $0.54 a share, in the three months ended September 30, 2010. If these projects receive regulatory approval, they should begin operating in 2013. These new pipelines will complement TransCanada’s $12-billion U.S. Keystone pipeline project, which recently started pumping oil from Alberta to refineries in the U.S. Midwest. TransCanada is a buy. buy…