June 19, 2023 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, NEE, Videos |
This week’s Quick Pick is utility NextEra Energy (NEE). NextEra is focused on Florida, a state with a relatively utility-friendly regulatory scheme, and where the company’s Florida Power and Light has 5.8 million customers. NextEra operates a mix of energy sources including seven nuclear plants, 4.6 gigawatts of solar, and, recently, hydrogen as well. That’s a good mix, fortunately, or unfortunately, for this point in the climate crisis. I have owned NEE since November 2020 in my dividend portfolio. The stock price hasn’t moved a lot lately, but if the Fed continues its pause on rate hikes and the economy doesn’t slow further, I think this one will outperform. Right now you get a 2.5% dividend with the possibility of capital appreciation if the company’s alternative energy efforts continue to show growth and when/if the Fed cuts interest rates.
November 21, 2022 | Daily JAM, Videos |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-eighth YouTube video: Quick Pick NiSource. This week’s Quick Pick is NiSource (NYSE: NI). If you saw my last Trend of the Week video, you know that I believe the dip in utilities represents a good buying opportunity as utilities make the transition away from coal and natural gas with an eye toward the future of electricity. Investors have already started “rewarding” some utility stocks, like Eversource Energy (NYSE: ES) and NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE), because they see these utilities starting that transition. Which means, of course, that these stocks have been bid up on that recognition. Eversource is rated by Morningstar as 6% overvalued and NextEra, which owns Florida Power & Light, is rated at fair value by Morningstar. The utility I’m looking at is NiSource, which largely services Indiana and Ohio—not generally considered bastions of cutting-edge green energy technologies. But! Goods going from coast to coast necessarily travel through those states, and as trucking companies make the transition to electric, the utility companies that service those areas will need to provide the power. NiSource is at the beginning stages of its own transition away from coal and toward renewable sources. The stock currently trades at a 20% discount, according to Morningstar, with a 3.65% dividend, higher than both Eversource and NextEra. NiSource says they’re expecting 6-8% annual earnings growth over the next 10 years and they’ve started investing in renewables in Indiana and Ohio. I think this is a stock that will start to get recognized as committing to the energy transition and I’ll be adding it to my dividend portfolio.
April 19, 2021 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, NEE |
NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), a subsidiary of utility NextEra Energy (NEE), will buy wind farms in California and New Hampshire from Brookfield Renewable Partners. The wind turbines have a combined capacity of 400 megawatts and have long-term contracts for their electricity. I added shares of NextEra Energy to my Dividend Portfolio on November 25, 2020. The stock is up 6.38% since then through the close on April 19.
February 10, 2021 | COPX, Daily JAM, Videos |
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The tenth YouTube video “Avoiding Di-Worisification in 2021” went up today.
January 4, 2021 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, KMI, VGSH |
It’s unusual, to say the least, to have a dividend portfolio match the returns on the Standard & Poor’s 500–especially in a year when the S&P 500 was setting an all time high–but that’s what happened in 2020. My Dividend Portfolio showed a price gain of 12.28% for 2020. Add in the 3.43% dividend yield and the total return for the portfolio for the year was 15.71.%Â For the year the S&P 500 returned 16% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned 7%.
November 17, 2020 | AES, C, Daily JAM, Dividend Income, DUK, Jubak Picks, NEE, Special Reports |
I started off with utility stocks and I’ve now moved on to other dividend stocks within the general argument that dividend stocks–if you pick the right one–are perfect for the post-vaccine economy and stock market rally.
September 29, 2020 | Daily JAM, KCAC, Mid Term, Special Reports, Volatility |
Yikes. Does this market have enough volatility for you? And I think that volatility will only get worse over the next two to six months, I can't remember a market with so much potential to move up or down in big relatively short-term volatility as this one. Just as...
