Stock price when the opinion was issued
The payout ratio on PPL is about 98%, so there is not a lot of wiggle room. He does not own this one. The company is looking to buy KML. He has a short on this simply because they are already long KML. The balance sheet is better than most pipelines out there. However, it does not score cheaply enough on valuations for him to want to buy today. Yield 5.2%
(A Top Pick Feb 14/19, Up 5%) Kinder Morgan Canada was purchased by Pembina Pipeline. This was the TMX project. He was hoping for a better price in the acquisition, so the return was muted.
Now they have a lot of cash. The intention of the parent company is not very clear. They could use it for distribution or other things. We don’t know. Next step is doing what they are doing.