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TC ENERGY CORP. $65 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TRP; Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.04 billion; Market cap: $67.6 billion; Dividend yield: 5.2%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.tcenergy.com) spun off its oil pipeline business as a separate company called South Bow Corp. (Toronto symbol SOBO). Investors received 0.2 of a South Bow share for every TC share. The former parent now focuses on its 93,300-kilometre pipeline network, which pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. It also owns gas pipelines in Mexico, and owns or invests in seven power plants in Canada and the U.S. TC now plans to spend $24.9 billion on new projects and upgrades through 2031. Those new projects should lift its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) from $10.0 billion in 2024 to between $11.7 billion and $11.9 billion in 2027. Moreover, potential U.S. tariffs will have little impact on TC. That’s because 97% of its earnings come from rate-regulated or take-or-pay contracts. TC is…