Black Hills Corporation Stock News

Utilities are generally considered safe income investment vehicles. Back in the day, they used to be called widow-and-orphan stocks on Wall Street.

Dividend stocks are a favorite among investors for good reason.

"A Dividend King [is] a stock with 50 or more consecutive years of dividend increases." - suredividend.com. 53 Divided Kings, screened as of December 11, 2024, represented all eleven Morningstar Sectors. Broker-estimated top-ten net gains ranged from 14.79% to 25.23%, topped by SJW and SWK. By yield, MO topped all the Kings. Top-ten yields from ABBV, ADM, SWK, FRT, FTS, BKH, NWN, CDUAF, UVV, an...

RAPID CITY, S.D., Dec. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Black Hills Corp. (NYSE: BKH) today announced that its Iowa natural gas utility, Black Hills/Iowa Gas Utility Company, LLC, doing business as Black Hills Energy, received approval from the Iowa Utilities Commission of a settlement agreement for new rates. The new rates are designed to recover approximately $100 million of pipeline system inves...

Energy stocks are having a solid year. The average one in the S&P 500 was up 14% heading into the year's final month.

The utility sector rallied strongly in 2024, with the average utility stock yield falling from around 3.6% to the current rate of around 2.8%. While that's still better than the 1.2% you would collect from the S&P 500 index, you can do much better.

High-yield energy stocks can provide diversification to your portfolio. But if you pick the right high-yielders, they can also offer stability -- you just have to avoid the segments of the energy sector known for massive, commodity-driven price swings.

Dividend stocks come in many different shapes and sizes, but one incarnation stands head and shoulders above them all: The Dividend King. Dividend Kings have increased their dividends annually for 50 consecutive years, or longer.