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• 5 Utilities to Consider

  By Ryan Peckyno - February 28, 2013 | Tickers: AEP, EXC, PPL, UIL, WR

  When I was a kid growing up, I used to love playing Monopoly.  But I never sought to own the utilities, because unlike the other properties you couldn’t build houses or hotels on them once you accumulated all of them. That means that if someone landed on one of your utilities late in the game you couldn’t bankrupt them.  By contrast, if you owned Park Place and Boardwalk more »

• 5 Cheap Dividend Stocks for Prudent Investors

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - December 26, 2012 | Tickers: AFL, ATI, MXIM, OXY, WR

  Value investors buy stocks of companies that appear to be priced below their intrinsic values based on financial metrics such as price-to-earnings ratios, price-to-book ratios, or dividend yields. A value investment strategy has proven to produce greater risk-adjusted returns than alternatives. Prudent value investors can attempt to achieve higher returns by uncovering undervalued companies that boast an appreciation potential and dividend payouts that provide current income.

  Nuveen Dividend Value Fund more »