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Power down A hunt for dividend income led investors to pour money into high - yielding utility stocks in 2016.

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If concerns over housing and economic growth persist, it may be worthwhile to consider high yield utility stocks for lower volatility and high dividend payouts to ride out further volatility.

Not exact matches

If you take the view that few if any of Trump's proposals will play out as hoped, Fehr recommends a defensive positioning, with a heavy weighting to bonds and large - capitalization, high - yielding stocks such as telecoms, utilities and consumer staples.

In a year marked by a significant milestone for rising interest rates (the 10 - year Treasury note yield topping 3 percent), an unusual winner has begun to emerge in the stock market: utility stocks.

Dividend stocks that yield more When it comes to equities, high - paying dividend stocks, especially in the utility and REIT sectors, have been the go - to investment of late.

Short - term Treasury yields have declined, but other yield classes including utilities, long - term bonds, and stock yields are in hostile uptrends.

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Utilities and real estate stocks compete with treasuries for investors looking for yield.

When a utility shows a low yield around 2.50 %, you usually find the reason behind it with the stock price.

High - dividend stocks such as utilities and phone companies fell; those stocks are often compared to bonds and they tend to fall when bond yields rise, as higher bond yields make the stocks less appealing to investors seeking income.

Another statistic courtesy of Mike Goldstein is that utility stocks, a high - yield group I call the most bond - like of all stocks, today sell for almost the same P / E multiple as the S&P 500.

With that said, if I were to buy any utility stocks, my favorites are Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) with a current dividend yield of 5.03 %, Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) with a 4.42 % dividend yield and Southern Co. (NYSE: SO) with a 5.17 % dividend yield.

This is because investors are worried about rising interest rates, something that makes investment in utilities less attractive compared to bonds and other high yield stocks.

Stocks in the utilities sector offer one of the highest dividend yields as a group, around 3.6 % for the Select Sector SPDR Utilities Fuutilities sector offer one of the highest dividend yields as a group, around 3.6 % for the Select Sector SPDR Utilities FuUtilities Fund (XLU).

Barrons: Investors looking for safety and income have driven utility stocks to pricey levels and low yields.

Into the afternoon, US stocks turned positive (S&P +8 to 2675, telecom and utilities lead gainers), while the 10 - year yield remained steady around 2.96 %.

... In terms of its peers, Consolidated Water generates a yield of 2.62 %, which is on the low - side for Water Utilities stocks.Next Steps: With this in mind, I definitely rank Consolidated Water as a strong dividend stock, and makes it worth further research for anyone who likes steady income generation from their portfolio.

Roughly half of the ETFs have a higher correlation to treasury bonds and the other half to the S&P 500 Index (i.e., CWB — convertible bonds, JNK — high yield corporate, PFF — preferred stock and XLU — utilities all react to interest rates but are more correlated to the stock market than to treasury bonds).

I think this is also worth keeping in mind, as many investors would judge utility stocks mainly by dividend yield.

In Mm Mm Good, published August 2016, the Campbell Soup Company (CPB) and the utility sector were highlighted to show how yield - starved investors were chasing dividend stocks to dangerously high valuations.

Remember, as bond yields rise, bond prices fall, as do the prices of bond proxies such as utilities, REITs and other high - yielding stocks.

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Continuously declining long - term rates created two tailwinds for his portfolio: 1) It continuously reduced borrowing costs for highly leveraged companies; and 2) Drove up values of high yielding stocks (look at what utilities, MLPs and REITs have done over the same time period).

A 4 % or 5 % yield is great but I think 10 - 15 years down the road my AAPL yield on cost will far exceed any utility stock I buy today.

The following diversified Utility Stock ETFs are all yielding a respectable 4 - 5 %.

While these utility stock ETFs are not the highest yielding ETFs like Preferreds and other esoteric sectors yielding 6 - 8 %, they are much more steady performers less subject to shocks to the economy.

A portfolio that is constructed solely on the basis of highest - yield securities can potentially run the risk of overloading on the financials and utilities sectors, as those two sectors typically have stocks that pay high dividends.

After years of investors chasing the highest yielding stocks, many classic defensive sectors — utilities and telecom, for example — have gotten expensive.

Thus, dividend yields on utility stocks such as SSE can be more than 5 % in a good year.

Adam Galas: In my opinion, a great utility - like stock that retirees should consider owning, despite its lower 1.5 % yield, is Brookfield Asset Management.

«The fund focuses on high yield bonds and utility stocks with the goal of providing relatively high yield.

This preferred stock is a California utility with an higher - than - average yield.

(Barron's: Aug 1, 2016) Barron's said many dividend ETFs have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past 12 months, mostly because of their large allocations to utility stocks, which pay high dividend yields and which have appreciated significantly this year.

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The 4 % yield on utility stocks might seem attractive once again.

However, the 4 % yields available from many quality utility stocks today, is in stark contrast to the 6 % to 8 % yields available from many high quality REITs or MLPs.

Similar to utility stocks, I consider this candidate primarily for the consistency of its dividend and high current yield.

A low growth rate, high valuation, low yield (for a utility) and lack of any significant future growth made it clear that this stock doesn't fit my strategy currently.

As you mentioned, many utility stocks have strong yields and steady dividend growth.

The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change) in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise prices accordingly!

In fact, the vast majority of high - yielding assets have been the best performers of 2014, including utility stocks, REITs as well as long - dated U.S. Treasuries.

Not only has this drop in yields been positive for traditional bond funds such as the iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury ETF (IEF), but preferred stocks, REITs, and even utilities have benefited as well.

Utility stocks are generally low - growth high - yield investments.

And while many utility stocks offer higher - than - market yields, getting over 6 % with a utility is really rare.

This means bond funds are falling as are safer yield - oriented stocks like telecom and utilities.

Anyone buying utility stocks for yield must expect significant capital losses if rates spike.

An average utility stock sector fund might be close to a 4 % yield and a 6 % capital gain, as an illustration of how to use the sector figures.

Generally slow growing, but high - yielding and inexpensive relative to earnings, utilities are the traditional dividend value stock.

The first 2018 Roth IRA contribution was also added to the sell proceeds, and the total available cash was invested in two new higher yielding stocks: Edison International (EIX), an electrical utility company, and Kennedy - Wilson Holdings (KW), a diversified REIT consisting of multifamily rentals and commercial property.