Portland General Electric Company’s POR focus on meeting customer needs through Integrated Resource plan and systematic long-term investments bode well.Let’s discuss the factors that make Portland General Electric an appropriate investment option at the moment.Zacks Rank & Price MovementPortland General Electric currently sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.Shares of the company have gained on a long-term basis. In the past five years, the stock has rallied 31.8% compared with the industry’s rise of 5.1%.Growth ProjectionsThe Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company’s 2020 earnings is pegged at $2.58 per share on revenues of $2.20 billion. The bottom-line figure suggests 7.95% year-over-year increase. The same for the top line calls for a 3.68% rise on a year-on-year basis.The company’s long-term (3 to 5 years) earnings growth rate is pegged at 4.70%. Dividend YieldCurrently, the company has a dividend yield of 3.11% compared with the Zacks S&P 500 composite’s 2.23%.Investment PlanFor the 2020-2024 period, the company expects to make investments of approximately $2,985 million. The investment will be aimed toward enhancing safety and resiliency of the company’s infrastructure.Other Key PicksSome other top-ranked stocks from the same industry are NextEra Energy, Inc. NEE, Eversource Energy ES and Vistra Energy Corp. VST. The AES Corporation currently sports a Zacks Rank #1, while the other two stocks carry a Zack Rank of 2 (Buy).NextEra Energy, Eversource Energy and Vistra Energy have a trailing four-quarter positive earnings surprise of 2.39%, 2.42% and 7.68%, on average, respectively.The long-term earnings growth rates for NextEra Energy, Eversource Energy and Vistra Energy are pegged at 7.70%, 6.10% and 12.58%, respectively.More Stock News: This Is Bigger than the iPhone!It could become the mother of all technological revolutions. Apple sold a mere 1 billion iPhones in 10 years but a new breakthrough is expected to generate more than 27 billion devices in just 3 years, creating a $1.7 trillion market.Zacks has just released a Special Report that spotlights this fast-emerging phenomenon and 6 tickers for taking advantage of it. If you don't buy now, you may kick yourself in 2020.Click here for the 6 trades >>Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Portland General Electric Company (POR): Free Stock Analysis Report NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE): Free Stock Analysis Report Eversource Energy (ES): Free Stock Analysis Report Vistra Energy Corp. (VST): Free Stock Analysis Report To read this article on Zacks.com click here. Zacks Investment Research