20 Stocks To Buy | The Most Recommended Utilities At The Market

Utilities with a buy or better rating originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some investors love utilities, others hate them. I am somewhere in the middle. I never invested money into the utility sector because I know that strong growth is nearly impossible at low investment cots. So you should not get a quick big return.

The only chance to make a little money is with time optimized stock trading. But that's to complicated for me and means hard work. I love it to buy some high-quality growth stocks to receive the dividends without keeping an eye on anything and having fun with my live.

The good thing on utilities is that they generate stable cash flows and they can use the incoming money to pay high dividends and repurchase own shares. I believe that it makes more sense to buy bonds of those companies because if the company jumps into trouble the dividend payments and share buyback programs will be reduced as first. The bondholders suffer at the end.

However, I like to show you today which utilities are the most recommended at the market. I made a small list of the 20 best stocks which excludes stocks with a market capitalization below USD 2 billion because I personally think the risk should be much higher as for mid-capitalized stocks.

Below the 20 hottest utilities are sixteen with a dividend; two are high-yields.

Bill Nygren, Henry Berghoef - Oakmark Select Q4/2011 Fund Portfolio

Bill Nygren, Henry Berghoef - Oakmark Select Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Bill Nygren and Henry Berghoef’s - Oakmark Select - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, they have 20 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 2,373,087,000.

Bill Nygren, Henry Berghoef - Oakmark Select Q3-2011 Fund Portfolio

Bill Nygren, Henry Berghoef - Oakmark Select Q3-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Bill Nygren and Henry Berghoef’s - Oakmark Select - portfolio movements as of Q3/2011 (September 30, 2011). In total, they have 20 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 2,155,851,000.

Bill Nygren and Henry Berghoef’s fund positions as of Q3/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
DISCK - Discovery Communications Inc. CL C	9.47	Reduce 3.33%	$35.15
LINTA - Liberty Media Interactive	6.51	Reduce 5.00%	$14.77
TEL - TE Connectivity	6.09	0	$28.14
CMCSA - Comcast Corp.	5.71	0	$20.69
MA - Mastercard Inc.	5.15	Reduce 12.50%	$317.16
CPN - Calpine Corp.	5.13	0	$14.08
INTC - Intel Corp.	4.99	0	$21.33
EBAY - eBay Inc.	4.72	0	$29.49
TXN - Texas Instruments	4.7	0	$26.65
COF - Capital One Financial	4.69	Add 18.60%	$39.63
DELL - Dell Inc.	4.67	0	$14.15
CVE - Cenovus Energy Inc.	4.59	0	$30.71
BMY - Bristol-Myers Squibb	4.48	Reduce 23.19%	$31.38
DTV - DIRECTV Group Inc.	4.41	0	$42.25
MDT - Medtronic Inc.	4.32	0	$33.24
TWX - Time Warner Inc.	4.25	Add 3.38%	$29.97
JPM - JPMorgan Chase & Co.	4.18	Add 20.05%	$30.12
HRB - Block H&R	4.18	Add 7.97%	$13.31
FDX - FedEx Corp.	3.92	Buy	$67.68
NFX - Newfield Exploration	3.83	Add 31.65%	$39.69

Related Stock Ticker of Bill Nygren and Henry Berghoef’s Portfolio:

DISCK, LINTA, TEL, CMCSA, MA, CPN, INTC, EBAY, TXN, COF, DELL, CVE, BMY, DTV, MDT, TWX, JPM, HRB, FDX, NFX