Where the Investors Are: PowerRatings Best of the Requests

Concerns about the economy continue to be reflected in the stocks investors are researching at PowerRatings.net. Among the highest Long Term PowerRatings stocks for today are names from three, top-rated industry groups: Property & Casualty Insurance, Oil & Gas Pipelines, and Diversified Utilities.

I would be surprised if more than a handful of readers have heard of these stocks: Endurance Specialty Holdings (ENH@ENH | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), Buckeye Partners (BPL@BPL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), and DPL Inc. (DPL@DPL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). The first, Endurance Specialty Holdings, is a top-rated member of the Property & Casualty Insurance industry group with a P/E of 4 and a dividend yield of 3.90.

Endurance Specialty Holdings missed its earnings estimates by a wide margin in May, after two consecutive quarters of upside earnings suprises. ENH next reports earnings on July 29, with analysts expecting EPS of 1.49.

Less a play on the problems of an over-debted economy and more a bet on the likely solution (i.e., inflation), Buckeye Partners is a leading, high PowerRatings stock from the Oil & Gas Pipelines industry.

Buckeye Partners transports and stores petroleum products for the major integrated oil corporations. The company's stock has a P/E of 13.30 and a healthy dividend yield of 8.40. Buckeye Partners missed earnings during its last earnings announcement in April, falling short by three cents. The company next reports earnings on July 29th, with analysts expecting earnings per share of $0.81.

Last but not least is our member of the Diversified Utilities industry, DPL Inc.

If you have been reading PowerRatings.net at all over the past few months, then you know well that the Diversified Utilities industry has been among the industries most populated with high Long Term PowerRatings stocks. DPL Inc., a regional electricity generation, transmission and distribution utility operating in the Ohio area, is one of them. The company has a P/E of 12.90 and a dividend yield of 4.10.

Note that all three of the stocks in today's report have Long Term PowerRatings of 9. Our research, involving thousands of simulated stock trades between 1995 and 2007, indicates that stocks with Long Term PowerRatings of 9 have been both more reliable and better performers than the average stock. Specifically, we found that 9-rated stocks were higher one year later more than 79% of the time. Compare that to the average stock, which was higher one year later less than 68% of the time.

Not only are 9-rated stocks more reliable than the average stock, but also these stocks have tended to outperform the average stock. We found that 9-rated stocks tended to gain, on average, more than 18% in a year's time between 1995 and 2007. By contrast, the average stock tended to gain between 12-13% after a year over the same time span.

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David Penn is Senior Editor of PowerRatings.net.