Updating Our High-Growth Payers: Pembina Pipeline Corp.

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PEMBINA PIPELINE CORP. $52 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol PPL; High-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 580.5 million; Market cap: $30.2 billion; Dividend yield: 5.3%; 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, it increased your quarterly dividend by 3.4%, to $0.69 a share from $0.6675. The new annual rate of $2.76 yields a high 5.3%. In April 2024, Pembina increases its stakes in two joint ventures with Enbridge. Specifically, it acquired an additional 50.0% of the Alliance Pipeline, which pumps natural gas from B.C. and Alberta to Chicago; and it bought 42.7% of the Aux Sable gas processing plant in Illinois. In all, Pembina paid $3.1 billion to Enbridge. As a result, the company’s net revenue in the third quarter of 2024 rose 27.4%, to $1.26 billion from $989 million a year earlier. Cash flow also…