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Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, March 15, 2024

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TC ENERGY INC., $54.49, Toronto symbol TRP, remains a buy. TC generates steady cash flow for investors mainly through a 93,700-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 nine power plants. With the April 2024 payment, TC will raise your quarterly dividend by 3.2%. Investors will then receive $0.96 a share instead of $0.93. The new annual rate of $3.84 yields a high 7.0%. The company is now selling its Portland Natural Gas Transmission System to BlackRock Inc. (New York symbol BLK). That business pumps natural gas through a 475-kilometre pipeline from Quebec to customers in New England and Atlantic Canada. TC owns 61.7% of this line, with Quebec-based energy firm Energir holding the remaining 38.3%. The company will receive $740 million for its share. It expects to complete the transaction in mid-2024. The sale is part of TC’s plan to sell $3 billion of its less-important…