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Promising Utility Stocks To Follow Now - August 28th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat highlights five high-volume stocks to watch: Pacific Gas & Electric, Berkshire Hathaway, AutoZone, Ford Motor, and Quanta Services.
  • Utilities are often viewed as stable, income-oriented investments due to predictable demand and dividends, but they remain sensitive to interest rates, regulation, and operating costs.
  • The companies span diverse businesses, including Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance, railroad, and energy operations; Ford’s automotive and financing segments; AutoZone’s replacement-parts retailing; and Quanta Services’ utility and infrastructure construction.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of Pacific Gas & Electric.

Pacific Gas & Electric, Berkshire Hathaway, AutoZone, Ford Motor, and Quanta Services are the five Utility stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Utility stocks are shares of companies that provide essential services such as electricity, natural gas, water, or telecommunications. Investors often view them as relatively stable, income-oriented investments because utilities typically have predictable demand and may pay regular dividends, though they can be sensitive to interest rates, regulation, and changes in operating costs. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Utility stocks within the last several days.

Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG)

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

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AutoZone (AZO)

AutoZone, Inc. retails and distributes automotive replacement parts and accessories in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. The company provides various products for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans, and light trucks, including new and remanufactured automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories, and non-automotive products.

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Ford Motor (F)

Ford Motor Company develops, delivers, and services a range of Ford trucks, commercial cars and vans, sport utility vehicles, and Lincoln luxury vehicles worldwide. It operates through Ford Blue, Ford Model e, and Ford Pro; Ford Next; and Ford Credit segments. The company sells Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories through distributors and dealers, as well as through dealerships to commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments.

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Quanta Services (PWR)

Quanta Services, Inc. provides infrastructure solutions for the electric and gas utility, renewable energy, communications, and pipeline and energy industries in the United States, Canada, Australia, and internationally. The company's Electric Power Infrastructure Solutions segment engages in the design, procurement, construction, upgrade, repair, and maintenance of electric power transmission and distribution infrastructure and substation facilities; installation, maintenance, and upgrade of electric power infrastructure projects; installation of smart grid technologies on electric power networks; and design, installation, maintenance, and repair of commercial and industrial wirings.

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