Steady income from expanding projects

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PEMBINA PIPELINE $37.12 (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares outstanding: 340.4 million; Market cap: $13.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 4.7%; www.pembina.com) owns pipelines that carry half of Alberta’s conventional oil, 30% of Western Canada’s natural gas liquids (NGLs) and almost all of B.C.’s conventional oil. Pembina also owns extensive facilities to extract, process and store NGLs. In the three months ended March 31, 2015, the company’s cash flow per share fell 24.1%, to $0.63 from $0.83 a year earlier. That’s mainly because lower oil and gas prices cut profit margins and volumes at its NGL extraction business. Pembina is spending $1.94 billion on capital projects this year, up 36% from 2014. It will mainly invest these funds in projects already in progress, almost all of which already have long-term contracts with customers. That cuts the company’s risk. The stock trades at 17.3 times its forecast 2015 cash flow of $2.14 a share. The company raised its monthly dividend by 5.2%…