TransCanada's Q4 beats expectations, raises dividend 8%
- TransCanada (TRP +0.2%) is slightly higher in early trading after posting better than expected Q4 earnings and raising its dividend by 8%, reflecting higher pipeline project earnings and new oil shipments on the southern leg of the Keystone XL project.
- TRP's latest estimate of the total cost for Keystone XL is US$8B, including US$2.4B spent as of the end of 2014.
- Says it has completed a successful binding open season for a proposed C$600M project called the Upland Pipeline, which would connect North Dakota’s oil fields with the cross-Canada Energy East project; TRP hopes to put Upland into service in 2018.
- Analysts see no material threat to TRP’s dividend growth guidance of at least 8% through 2017, even without the startup of major new pipelines such as Keystone XL, Energy East and two gas conduits planned to Canada’s Pacific coast.
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