Dividend-paying essential-service companies continue to report solid fourth-quarter and full-year results, and the macro situation is firming. Be alert as expectations rise.
Roger S. Conrad
Roger Conrad is the preeminent financial advisor on utility stocks and income investing. He's helped his loyal readers rack up safe, steady double-digit gains of 13.3% annually since 1990. And he's done it all with a focus on capital preservation and risk minimization that's helped his readers avoid the catastrophes of the tech bubble, the Lehman Brothers crash, and numerous other hiccups along the way. Roger holds a bachelor's degree from Emory University and a master's degree in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). Roger has authored numerous investing books and is an avid outdoorsman and baseball fan.
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“Momentum dividend investing” is a recent trend soon to die as those who practice it realize its money-losing potential.
Master limited partnerships (MLP) are one of the surest groups for solid growth and sustainable distributions.
Natural gas is priced at levels not seen since the 1990s. Abnormally warm weather in key regions suggests they’ll remain depressed. Here’s how natural gas prices impact dividend-paying energy stocks.
There’s plenty of impending-doom-related nonsense associated with 2012 without taking the extraneous and often intellectually compromised step of comparing our current year to the Great Depression’s 1932.
But low expectations will prove easy to beat for solid businesses.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved plant designs for two new nuclear power plants in the Southeast US.
It’s not official, but there’s no reasonable expectation for any kind of meaningful action as long as politicians are lining up for November 2012. Until then it’s de facto government shutodown time.
Entergy Corp (NYSE: ETR) and ITC Holdings (NYSE: ITC) have executed a deal to merger their high-voltage electricity transmission operations.
Accidents will happen, and energy companies have to build these costs into their business models. It’s the unintended consequences of good-intentioned legislators and regulators that create unexpected costs, eventually for consumers.




