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.

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.

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.