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All Weather Stocks - NSTAR Belongs in a Utility Stock Portfolio

NSTAR (NST), a large Massachusetts-based, electric and gas utility, has consistently traded well above its 10-year moving average (based on monthly closes). From June 1990 through June 2009, NST was up 850 percent, a 12.58 percent annualized rate of return.


Since April 1990, NST has increased its quarterly dividend from $0.19 to $0.375, a 97.37 percent increase (3.64 percent annualized rate of return).

Its current dividend yield is 4.70 percent.

The combination of a persistent upside stock prices and increasing dividends makes NST an excellent candidate for a long-term dividend reinvestment portfolio.

To get more performance information about NST, use the buyupside.com Stock Return Calculator. Enter NST as the stock symbol on the calculator input form.

Follow NSTAR on buyupside.com each day to spot tops and bottom with the Price Direction Indicator (PDI).

See the buyupside.com Dividend Chart Maker to view more dividends charts for NST and other dividend-paying stocks.

I (RAH) do not own NST.


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Posted July 2, 2009.

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