Their regulated operations offset Alberta risk

Alberta’s high COVID-19 infection rates and Ottawa’s plans to cut emissions at the province’s oil producers could hurt electricity sales at Canadian Utilities and its parent company ATCO. However, recent investments in renewable power projects help cut that risk. Moreover, as regulated utilities, their dividends… Read More

These four utilities still top bonds

Although it looks like interest rates will start moving up again in 2022, we continue to prefer high-quality utility stocks over holding bonds.
The four utility stocks below are top alternatives to bonds given their long track records of increasing their dividends even as rising interest… Read More

Forget bonds, buy these three instead

We continue to recommend income-seeking investors stick with high-quality utilities (like the three we review below) instead of bonds. That’s because the increasing likelihood of rising interest rates in the next few years would hurt bond prices.
While utilities would also have to refinance their… Read More