For the 17th year since 1984, the Dow Jones Utility Average ended the month of January in the red (-1.4 percent). And utilities have dropped further, with the DJUA down slightly less than 5 percent for the first 9 weeks or so of 2021.
The good news: 10 of those years, utilities ended higher. And only in 2008, 2002, 2001 and 1994 were they meaningfully lower.
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News and Analysis
5G Spectrum Auction Winners: Maybe Not Who You Think
The results are in for the most expensive wireless spectrum auction in US history. The question for the Big Two is whether their huge outlay will produce the revenue and cash flow to be worth it.
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News and Analysis
Why I Bought More Dominion Energy
Dominion will be an early beneficiary of Biden Administration energy policies regarding permitting for offshore wind facilities.
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News and Analysis
These Offshore Wind Stocks are Still Cheap
Renewable energy stocks were popular well before the recent US elections. Since then they’ve really blasted off, but one group of renewable energy stocks have yet to feel the love.
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Investment Strategy
MDU Resources: Low Risk Bet on an Infrastructure Boom
At first glance, MDU Resources (NYSE:MDU) shows a fairly discouraging investment profile. But there are three very good reasons to expect much better in the next 12 months.
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News and Analysis
Algonquin Power: An Up and Coming NextEra at a Better Price
Strong regulated utilities combined with long-term contracted renewable energy generation: That’s the NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) business model. And not only does the formula work well, it’s become quite popular with investors.
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Income Insights
Three Great Ways to Bet on Utility M&A
Exhaustive reviews, impossible public interest standards and no guarantee of eventual success: That’s the consensus outlook for mergers and acquisitions activity under the Biden Administration. Nonetheless, utility M&A is alive and well.
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Income Insights
Renewable Energy Reboots: What to Buy
Our advice to heed the lessons of Robinhood.com has already proven timely: Build capital gains on solid business fundamentals, cash out of high-flyers and invest in successful adopters of wind and solar.
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Income Insights
The Great Texas Power Crisis: An Emerging Buying Opportunity
When a monthly power bill hits $1,700 plus, people are bound to wonder if there’s a better way to run an electricity market.
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Income Insights
The Great Texas Power Crisis: Winners and Losers
Single digit temperatures, record snowfall, millions of utility customers without service, nearly one-third of the state’s power generating capacity shut down and spiking electricity prices: That’s the damage so far from the Great Texas Power Crisis of 2021, which continues wreak havoc across the Lone Star State.
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Income Insights
Renewable Energy: Lessons from Robin Hood.com
Writing under the famous pen name Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens coined the phrase “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
I’m not the first to apply that bit of country wisdom to investing. But it’s always worth revisiting in the aftermath of extraordinary market events.
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