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▲ cj 3 hours ago

Here you go: XEL, AEP, SO, EIX, CPK, AQN, NGG, NEE

▲WarmWash 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks

These are their five year stock gains, with the general market for reference.

Market (SP500): 68%

Market(tech): 89%

XEL: +20%

AEP: +51%

SO: +47%

EIX: -5%

CPK: +2.5%

AQN: -64%

NGG: +30%

NEE: -3.5%

Looks like a pretty bad industry for profits, even stacking the dividend on AEP, it still comes up short of SP500.

▲triceratops 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Everything comes up short of the S&P 500.

Utility companies get local monopolies and in exchange their prices are regulated. Consequently they have moderate but stable, essentially guaranteed, returns.

▲cj 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Your goal post for acceptable profit taking for utilities is… the S&P 500?

That makes very little sense.

And stock price is not a measure of profit.