Pembina moves forward

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PEMBINA PIPELINE, $40.90, is still a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares outstanding: 550.0 million; Market cap: $22.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 6.2%; www.pembina.com) has lost out in its takeover bid for Inter Pipeline Ltd. (symbol IPL on Toronto). Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (symbol BIP.UN on Toronto) won with an $8.6 billion bid. Inter’s assets include over 7,000 kilometres of pipelines and five million barrels of oil storage capacity in Western Canada. It also has plants for processing natural gas liquids and is building the $4-billion Heartland petrochemical plant near Edmonton. The Inter Pipeline takeover would have been a very good fit for Pembina. Even though its acquisition bid fell short, Pembina’s outlook and growth prospects remain strong. What’s more, the company received a $350 million break-up fee from Inter Pipeline after that firm accepted the rival bid. Pembina Pipelines remains a buy. buy…