Some income-oriented investors make their investment decisions based primarily on the current dividend yield of stocks. However, a stock’s dividend growth rate is sometimes more important than i...
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These 27 stocks can give you a more diversified portfolio than the S&P 500 — and that’s a key advantage right now
You probably already know that because of market-capitalization weighting, a broad index such as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.80% can be concentrated in a handful of stocks. Index funds are popular for goo...
NextEra Energy Gets a Fundamental Supporter
NextEra Energy (NEE) owns Florida Power & Light Company, which is America’s largest electric utility that sells more power than any other utility. A major sell side firm upgraded the compan...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Utility Business Highlights the Warren Buffett Magic
Earnings at Berkshire Hathaway ’s big utility business have risen more than 30-fold since Warren Buffett bought the core of that operation in 2000, illustrating the power of the CEO’s patient approach...
Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling
Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...
Energy Stocks Are Cheap. Just Ask Warren Buffett.
Energy stocks are on sale, after a sharp selloff since oil and natural-gas prices peaked in early June. Oil is down 18% from its high, to $102 a barrel, while gas has fallen by a third, to about $6 pe...
These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...