that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem the currently outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Rate Reset Class A Preferred Shares, Series 17 (“Series 17 Shares”) (TSX: PPL.PR.Q) on March 31, 2024.
As a result of the decision not to redeem the Series 17 Shares, and subject to certain terms of the Series 17 Shares, the holders of the Series 17 Shares will have the right to elect to convert all or part of their Series 17 Shares on a one-for-one basis into Cumulative Redeemable Floating Rate Class A Preferred Shares, Series 18 of Pembina (“Series 18 Shares”) on March 31, 2024 (the “Conversion Date”). Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series 17 Shares into Series 18 Shares will retain their Series 17 Shares.
As provided in the terms of the Series 17 Shares: (i) if Pembina determines that there would remain outstanding immediately following the conversion less than 1,000,000 Series 17 Shares, then all remaining Series 17 Shares will be automatically converted into Series 18 Shares on a one-for-one basis effective as of the Conversion Date; or (ii) if Pembina determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 18 Shares outstanding immediately following the conversion, no Series 17 Shares will be converted into Series 18 Shares on the Conversion Date. There are currently 6,000,000 Series 17 Shares outstanding.
With respect to any Series 17 Shares that remain outstanding after the Conversion Date, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly fixed cumulative preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Pembina. The annual dividend rate for the Series 17 Shares for the five-year period from and including March 31, 2024, to, but excluding, March 31, 2029, will be 6.605 percent, being equal to the five-year Government of Canada bond yield of 3.595 percent determined as of today plus 3.01 percent, in accordance with the terms of the Series 17 Shares.
With respect to any Series 18 Shares that may be issued on the Conversion Date, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly floating rate cumulative preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Pembina. The annual dividend rate applicable to the Series 18 Shares for the three-month floating rate period from and including March 31, 2024, to, but excluding, June 30, 2024, will be 7.991 percent, being equal to the annual rate of interest for the most recent auction of 90-day Government of Canada treasury bills of 4.981 percent plus 3.01 percent, in accordance with the terms of the Series 18 Shares (the “Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate”). The Floating Quarterly Dividend Rate will be reset on the last day of March, June, September and December in each year.
Beneficial holders of Series 17 Shares who wish to exercise their right of conversion during the conversion period, which runs from March 1, 2024, until 3:00 pm (MT) / 5:00 pm (ET) on March 18, 2024, should communicate as soon as possible with their broker or other intermediary for more information. It is recommended that this be done well in advance of the deadline in order to provide the broker or other intermediary with the time to complete the necessary steps. Any notices received after this deadline will not be valid.
As previously announced, the dividend payable on March 31, 2024, to holders of the Series 17 Shares of record on March 15, 2024, will be $0.301313 per Series 17 Share. Pursuant to the terms of the Series 17 Shares, as March 31, 2024 is not a business day, payment will occur on April 1, 2024. For more information on the terms of the Series 17 Shares and the Series 18 Shares, please see the articles of amalgamation dated October 2, 2017, which can be found on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
PPL.PR.Q To Reset At 6.605%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation has announced:
It will be recalled that PPL.PR.Q will reset at 4.821% effective March 31, 2019.
PPL.PR.Q was originally issued as VSN.PR.C, following a plan of arrangement between the two companies. VSN.PR.C was a FixedReset, 5.00%+301 that commenced trading 2013-10-21 after being announced 2013-10-9. PPL.PR.Q reset at 4.821% effective 2019-3-31. I recommended against conversion and there was no conversion. PPL.PR.Q is tracked by HIMIPref™ but is relegated to the Scraps-FixedReset (Discount) subindex on credit concerns.
Thanks to Assiduous Reader niagara for bringing this to my attention!
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