Nevertheless, Exelon is still pretty cheap, trading for 11 times trailing earnings, just below the utility average.
Those in the Dow Jones Utility Average yield 6% or more, versus 4.2% for the common stocks in that index.
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The lower tax rate on dividends has contributed to the above-average increase in utility share prices, the consulting firm adds.
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The report noted that among the components of the Dow Jones Utility Average, ETR shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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The report noted that among the components of the Dow Jones Utility Average, AEP shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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The report noted that among the components of the Dow Jones Utility Average, UIL shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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The report noted that among the components of the Dow Jones Utility Average, IDA shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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Enel's ratio of 800 customers per employee compares poorly to, say, Spain's utility average of 2, 000, says Chris Rowland of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank.
Today, the average customer speaks to his utility company for less than 10 minutes a year.
At 3.6x, Germany is below the average leverage of a regulated Utility.
The combination of rising utility bills and higher-than-average healthcare has residents starting to think coal may not be king after all.
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To the average Peruvian, privatisation means not just corruption but higher utility tariffs and job losses.
We pay, on average, far more than we should for electricity because utility commissions generally ignore Ramsey, or stand him on his head.
The average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer is about 11, 000 kilowatt-hours.
For the first half of the year most utility stocks managed to weather the Enron scandal, falling an average of only 6% during the period.
In this hypothetical, that would allow a utility to run one coal plant and one gas plant but the average would decline over time.
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