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7 Utility Stocks To Trust For Retirement

7 Utility Stocks To Trust For Retirement

Total return is a winning strategy for long-term investors and utility stocks are the best at it. Utility stocks include companies that provide essential services — electricity, energy and water — to communities across the U.S. Because doing this in a country as big as the U.S. is no mean feat, most states have one […]

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5 Utility Stocks To Buy For An Extra Durable Portfolio

5 Utility Stocks To Buy For An Extra Durable Portfolio

These five utility stocks to buy should be able to rally so long as inflation remains checked [Editor’s note: This story was originally published in September 2018. It has since been updated and republished.] Utility stocks were supposed to be yesterday’s favorite investment. The theory regarding utility stocks was simple: Robust economic growth coupled with […]

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Utilities Or Refineries? Sell One, Buy The Other

| September 20, 2016 | 0 Comments
Utilities Or Refineries? Sell One, Buy The Other

Today I want to talk about a corner of the market that has been overlooked for far too long despite offering sustainable high yields of 4% or more—with dividends primed to soar even more. This sector is a distant cousin to a more familiar group of stocks: utilities. Utility stocks were once Wall Street’s best […]

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5 Best Utilities For Dividend Growth

| March 1, 2016 | 0 Comments
5 Best Utilities For Dividend Growth

If you’re buying utility stocks for dividends, focus on the firms that are boosting their payouts the fastest. I’ll give you my top 5 in a minute. But first, let me explain why this strategy is a must for utility investors today. The Utilities Select Sector Spider ETF (XLU) pays just 3.4% currently. This puts utility dividends […]

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