As the broad markets are recovering, we are starting to realize that the Brexit was a great opportunity to buy into the markets. The Brexit pulled markets back across the board. However,…
PowerSecure International has now landed its shareholders in the midst of a high-premium acquisition.
Jon C. Ogg This year has not been very kind to the utilities sector, ahead of the Federal Reserve's expected interest rate hike cycle into 2016.
Stock pickers, particularly those with a focus on value and income stocks, are finding many great bargains out there.
ThinkstockBeing invested in a utility was great for investors during the time when it was assured that interest rates were going to remain low for a very long time. Ahead of the…
Jon C. Ogg Credit Suisse appreciates the longer-term motivations behind Southern Company's deal to acquire AGL Resources.
Chris Lange ThinkstockSouthern Co. (NYSE: SO) announced Monday that it is acquiring AGL Resources Inc. (NYSE: GAS) in a deal worth $8 billion in equity value and approximately $12 billion including debt. The merged…
Paul Ausick Merrill Lynch believes the Federal Reserve rate hike could potentially act as the removal of an overhang on utilities rather than as a negative catalyst.
A new research note from Deutsche Bank says that utilities are cheap, and all of the quality companies yielding 4% or more make very good sense for the last half of 2015.
Institutions and retail investors alike have been exiting the utilities for the better part of the past 60 days in order to be out ahead of the coming Federal Reserve's interest rate…
These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades featured by 24/7 Wall St. for Thursday, October 30, 2014.
Jon OggStocks were well up on Wednesday morning. While volatility has returned to the stock market, it seems as though investors are looking to accumulate stocks that have sold off and that…
ThinkstockDividend payments by S&P 500 companies reached an all-time high last year, totaling some $330.8 billion, according to FactSet. As of this March, 418 of the 500 companies in the index paid…
ThinkstockSouthern Company (NYSE: SO) announced Friday that it is partnering with Turner Renewable Energy to buy New Mexico’s largest solar facility from First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). Terms of the deal were not…
ThinkstockWith both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new all-time highs this week, investors have to wonder how they should be positioning themselves for the rest of the…
