Pembina Pipeline CorpPPL.TOHOLDSep 14, 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.
This, and others like it, has gotten hit by association with energy, but the pipeline guys are just a toll on volumes on the way through. Pipelines are generally full, so where do you get your growth from? He thinks Enbridge (ENB-T) has the best growth of the pipelines.