Updating your Income-Growth Payers: TC Energy Corp.

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TC ENERGY CORP. $63 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TRP; Income-Growth Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 979.0 million; Market cap: $63.6 billion; Dividend yield: 5.3%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.tcenergy.com) operates a 93,300-kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. Its other operations include 4,900 kilometres of crude oil pipelines and seven power plants. Starting with the April 2021 payment, TC raised your quarterly dividend by 7.4%. Investors now receive $0.87 a share instead of $0.81. The new annual rate of $3.48 yields a high 5.5%. TC has increased its dividend rate each of the past 21 years. The company has now formally cancelled its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would have pumped crude from Alberta to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. In January 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden revoked the Keystone XL’s permit. In response, TC wrote down the project by $2.2 billion. However, if you factor out the government of Alberta’s stake…