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Evaluating the Dividend and Tax Selling in Utilities, Closer to Attractive with Patience

Posted: November 14, 2012 at 10:00 am

The utility sector has suffered the wrath of selling. As these are all high-dividend stocks and as many long-term investors had substantial capital gains, the investment community has been selling ...
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2012 Election Winners and Losers: Coal, Dividends, Health Care, Utilities, Oil and More

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 8:10 am

Election Day has come and gone. President Obama won a second term. The current electoral vote was by a margin of about 3 to 2 (unofficial), but the percentage last ...
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First Solar Shares Defy a Poor Earnings Report

Posted: November 1, 2012 at 4:20 pm

First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is out with its earnings report for its third quarter. The report is pretty poor, but not so dismal that investors are hitting the panic button ...
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Exelon’s Profit Slides, Revenues Too

Posted: November 1, 2012 at 8:41 am

Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. The power company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.77 on revenues of $6.57 billion. In the same ...
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Electric Utilities Slammed by Sandy (FE, POM, ED, NU, ETR)

Posted: October 30, 2012 at 9:22 am

An estimated 10 million customers could lose electrical power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, nearly a third more than the 7 million who lost power last year following Hurricane ...
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Delaware Offshore Wind Project Leases Granted, But Project is Stalled (NRG)

Posted: October 24, 2012 at 1:47 pm

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has agreed to lease 96,430 acres of federal waters about 11 miles off the Delaware coast for the development ...
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Dominion to Shut Down Wisconsin Nuke Plant

Posted: October 22, 2012 at 10:19 am

The lack of interest in nuclear power generation in the United States continues to grow. Today, Dominion Resources Inc. (NYSE: D) announced that it will stop producing power at its ...
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AT&T Dividend Declaration, Prelude to Hike Right Before Year-End

Posted: September 28, 2012 at 1:41 pm

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has just initiated its fourth payment of a $0.44 per common share quarterly dividend. We were not expecting a dividend hike this month, but we are ...
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MEMC Terminates Solar Wafer Customer

Posted: September 25, 2012 at 4:18 pm

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) has had no real good news heading its way in some time. Now we have news of a customer loss, or termination, as its subsidiary ...
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A Higher Water Dividend (AWR, AWK, CWT)

Posted: August 1, 2012 at 8:20 am

American States Water Co. (NYSE: AWR) has just announced that it is raising its dividend. The water utility said this brings its payout ratio more in-line with its industry peers and ...
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Arch Coal Earnings Report Offers Boost to Entire Battered Coal Sector (ACI, BTU, JRCC, KOL)

Posted: July 27, 2012 at 8:59 am

Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) is getting a huge boost after its earnings, and we would look for secondary and tertiary moves in the coal sector based upon this report. ...
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More Evidence of the Dividend Bubble, Utilities Looking Scarier

Posted: July 25, 2012 at 2:38 pm

By now you know that we have started to become cautious on some of the top dividend stocks.  It is not that we think anything is wrong at the companies, ...
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NRG Announces First-ever Dividend and Acquisition of GenOn

Posted: July 23, 2012 at 11:02 am

Electric power generators NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and GenOn Energy Inc. (NYSE: GEN) have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.7 billion. Under the terms of ...
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American Electric Power Beats EPS Estimates

Posted: July 20, 2012 at 9:37 am

Friday morning, American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) reported that its 2012 second-quarter earnings came to $362 million, or 75 cents per share. That was up from $352 million or $0.73 ...
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First Solar Shares Rise … Just Because

Posted: July 16, 2012 at 1:11 pm

Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up about 8% in the early afternoon on the company’s announcement that it has now installed another 100 megawatts of solar panels ...
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