Infrastructure Stocks Poised to Grow and Deliver Dividends: PPL Corporation (PPL), Spectra Energy Corp. (SE)

Other companies didn’t do as well last year, but could see their fortunes change in the coming years. Natural gas specialist Spectra Energy Corp. (NYSE:SE) shed 3%, and yields 4.2%. Growth initiatives have included opening a new natural-gas processing plant in British Columbia, and expanding its pipeline to deliver more natural-gas capacity to the New York-New Jersey region. It’s also been inking some promising partnerships. Its fourth-quarter earnings were pressured by lower commodity prices.

Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) , the nation’s largest nuclear-power company, lost 12%, and recently slashed its dividend by 41%. The company has been hurt by the relatively high cost of nuclear energy in an environment of very low gas prices, but the current situation won’t last forever, and Exelon is involved in other energy-generation businesses, too. It carries a lighter debt load than many peers, and is expanding into solar and wind power.

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