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Industry Focus

Energy: How Boring Utilities Can Offer Exciting Returns

Industry Focus

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Utilities have historically been classified as safe and boring but the industry is changing and there are some potentially exciting opportunities in the often overlooked segment.

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Welcome to industry focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:26.0

Today we're talking Energy and Industrials.

0:28.0

It's Thursday the 9th of November and we're going to be discussing utility companies.

0:32.9

Joining me on Skype is Motley Full Contributor

0:35.3

and all-round nice guy, Jason Holt.

0:37.3

Jason, thank you for joining me.

0:39.4

Hi, absolutely glad to be on.

0:41.3

Well, we're very glad to have you and your expertise on the topic but as I mentioned

0:46.2

we're going to be talking about utilities. Before listeners roll their eyes and turn us off we know

0:51.7

utilities have a reputation for being boring, but we're here today

0:56.1

to prove, or at least try to prove that they're worth a second look by some investors.

1:00.9

Utilities are the foundation on which we go about our day-to-day life.

1:04.0

When you got up this morning, your alarm might have woken you up.

1:06.0

You probably turn on the light.

1:08.0

You possibly had a shower, and all of these things we don't think twice about,

1:11.0

but they're fundamentally important to how we go about our lives.

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