Roger S. Conrad

We booked a 52% gain on Windstream Holdings (NSDQ: WIN). Now it's CenturyLink's (NYSE: CTL) turn to prove the skeptics wrong.

We check in on 14 more of our Portfolio holdings that have reported quarterly earnings, and the big news on our recent WIN.

Income-seeking investors shouldn't hesitate to take profits on stocks that run-up beyond their fair value.

Sell Windstream Holdings for a more than 50 percent gain.

America's two biggest telecoms reported second quarter earnings last week. We look at how they performed in the face of challenges from the competition.

Breitburn Energy Partners LP's recently proposed acquisition of QR Energy LP demonstrates that the search for scale is alive and well among upstream MLPs, as private-equity buyers ratchet up the competition for asset acquisitions.

Roger Conrad will host an exclusive Live Chat for Conrad's Utility Investor subscribers on Aug. 11, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. ET to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the publication's launch. This is your opportunity to ask him questions about specific utility stocks, income investing in general or how the pennant races are shaping up in the National League.

On July 14-15, the US Energy Information Administration held its annual conference in Washington, D.C. Speakers ranged from government analysts and statisticians, politicians and regulators to high-level industry consultants and luminaries like author Daniel Yergin. My colleague Elliott Gue and I attended to uncover investment opportunities obscured by faulty conventional wisdom. Here's our take.

Imagine a future where US coal-fired power plants continue to generate reliable baseload power, while CO2 collected during their operation fuels the shale oil boom. 

Elliott Gue and Roger Conrad attended the Energy Information Administration's annual conference on Monday and Tuesday. Here are their key takeaways and top investment ideas from the event.