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Investing Topics: Utility Bonds

Utility Bonds: Still Keeping It Short

By Roger S. Conrad on May. 12, 2024
A number of readers have asked my views on bonds as an alternative to dividend paying stocks. That’s understandable, given what’s been general investor disinterest in dividends over the past year and a half, even when companies have raised them reliably and robustly.

Utility Bonds: High Green Yields in a Zero Rate Environment

By Roger S. Conrad on Nov. 20, 2020

Now more than ever, it’s a seller’s market for bonds of regulated electric, gas and water utilities. But our list of Fixed income picks features four bonds that trade below our recommended buy prices and meet my cardinal rule for buying any bond or preferred stock.

Hunting Bond Bargains in a Seller’s Market

By Roger S. Conrad on Jan. 14, 2020

About year ago, we pounded the table to buy selected high yield bonds. Since then, each of our recommendations has scored solid capital gains, while providing yields as high as 10 percent.

The Search for Yield

By Roger S. Conrad on Apr. 15, 2017
With many utility stocks trading at frothy valuations, a big yield is hard to find.  

Bond Update: Solid Returns in a Challenging Tape

By Roger S. Conrad on Jan. 2, 2017
Our basket of junk bonds outperformed in a challenging fourth quarter.

Bond Bargains and Booby Traps

By Roger S. Conrad on Jul. 15, 2013

Utilities and essential services stocks are known for their long-run stability—both all-weather business strength and low share price volatility. But even they pale before the unmatched reliability of utility bonds.

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