Pembina Pipeline CorpPPL.TOPARTIAL BUYJan 13, 2015Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Aug 12, 2026. Market Open.
A name for a good dividend and safety. Pipelines are not quite as good as utilities, because they're perceived as being commodity-sensitive (even though they're really not).
You'll get your dividend, and the safety means you can sleep at night (and that's worth something). You can get diversification via funds and ETFs.
Both benefit from AI centre demand. Pembina is building a 1.8 gigawatt natural gas plant in Alberta. Half of ALA's business is in the US, regulated utilities, in Virginia--the world capital of data centre traffic. ALA also has activity in Western Canada. ALA's growth rate is higher than Pembina. ALA gets the slight edge.
If you don’t have the position right now and want to establish one, she would start with a half position, and then as energy kind of stabilizes, fill it up. Fairly confident in the cash flows because the projects they have in place are in long-term service agreements, so they are going to be paid regardless of what energy is doing. The concern would be if energy stayed low for a long period of time, so any potential additional projects that come on board beyond a 2 year time frame would start impacting their ability to grow their cash flow and their dividends.