Spinoff Spotlight: South Bow Corp.

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SOUTH BOW CORP. $37 is a hold. The company (Toronto symbol SOBO; Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 208.0 million; Market cap: $7.7 billion; Dividend yield: 7.7%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.southbow.com) took its current form on October 1, 2024, when TC Energy Corp. (Toronto symbol TRP) spun it off. Investors received 0.2 of a South Bow share for every TC share they held. This new firm operates a 4,900-kilometre pipeline network that pumps crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Illinois, Oklahoma and the U.S. Gulf Coast. About 90% of South Bow’s cash flow comes from rate-regulated or long-term shipping contracts from oil producers, which cuts its risk to U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada. Those contracts have an average remaining term of 8 years. As part of the spinoff, South Bow paid $7.9 billion (Canadian) to TC Energy. The company had to borrow those funds, so its long-term debt of $5.72 billion U.S. (as of December 31, 2024) represents a high 106% of its market cap. South Bow…