TRP sells off power plants

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TRANSCANADA CORP. $63.98 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 800.3 million; Market cap: $55.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.transcanada.com) completed its acquisition of Texas-based Columbia Pipeline Group on July 1, 2017. It operates underground gas storage terminals and natural gas pipelines in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions. The company paid $13 billion U.S. for Columbia. To put that cost in context, TransCanada’s market cap is $55.5 billion (Canadian). To help pay for that purchase, the company has completed the sale of its 13 hydroelectric plants in New England for $1.07 billion U.S. It also expects to finalize the sale of its power plants in Maine, Rhode Island, New York State and Pennsylvania in the next few weeks. TransCanada will receive $2.2 billion U.S. for those assets. TransCanada Corp. is a buy. buy…