TransCanada Results Beat Expectations; Company Raises Dividend -- Update
February 16 2017 - 9:40AM
Dow Jones News
By Anne Steele
TransCanada Corp. posted a loss Thursday for its latest quarter
on a hefty charge related to the sale of its Northeast U.S.
renewable power generation business.
Results, however, came in better than Wall Street expectations,
and the company also raised its quarterly dividend 11% to 62.5
Canadian cents per share.
For the three months ended Dec. 31, the company recorded a net
loss of 358 million Canadian dollars, or 43 Canadian cents a share,
compared with a loss of C$2.5 billion, or C$3.47 a share, in the
year-earlier period. TransCanada attributed the loss to a C$870
million write-down related to the sale of the U.S. Northeast power
business.
Excluding that charge and other items, adjusted earnings rose to
75 Canadian cents per share from 64 Canadian cents for the same
period in 2015. Revenue surged 27% to C$3.62 billion. Analysts
polled by Thomson Reuters had expected an adjusted 72 Canadian
cents a share on C$3.5 billion in revenue.
President Donald Trump last month took steps to revive two
controversial oil pipeline projects that had been rejected by the
Obama administration -- Keystone XL, which is owned by TransCanada,
as well as Energy Transfer's Dakota Access Pipeline.
Environmentalists have urged rejection of the pipelines as part
of a commitment to fighting climate change, while fossil-fuel
companies argue the projects are essential for energy security and
the economy.
The Keystone and Dakota Access projects were designed to help
expand infrastructure in response to a North American oil boom, but
they both ran into fierce opposition and ultimately were denied
permits under President Obama.
If completed, Keystone would send up to 830,000 barrels of oil a
day, mostly from Canada's oil sands to Steele City, Neb., where it
would link to existing pipelines to Gulf Coast refineries.
Write to Anne Steele at Anne.Steele@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 16, 2017 10:25 ET (15:25 GMT)
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