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To: advocatedevil who wrote (1319)	7/20/2002 5:48:36 PM
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Take a look at ED. I think this may be one of the better utility stocks. A 6% dividend and a good chance for capital appreciation longer term. biz.yahoo.com Generally speaking, the stocks of companies with steady earnings and dividends tend to be less volatile than their fancy high-tech counterparts. Boring old utilities may be the quintessential safeties, since they rarely miss their earnings targets and thus rarely get pummeled. And here's something to chew on: According to research headed up by Merrill Lynch chief U.S. strategist Richard Bernstein, the S&P Utilities Index has actually outperformed the Nasdaq since its inception in 1971. That's right: The tortoise is beating the hare, just as Aesop said. "One might question whether it was rational for investors to flock to the Nasdaq and that market's volatility when they could have received similar returns from utility stocks and slept better at night!" Bernstein wrote Tuesday. With this in mind (and with the Nasdaq some 68% off its all-time high), we thought it would be a good idea to use our stock screening tool to search for low-risk safety stocks. But first we needed to come up with the best way to measure risk. Money managers often use a gauge called beta, a coefficient expressing how much a stock has moved in relation to a benchmark — usually the Standard & Poor's 500 — in the past. While this measure is certainly useful, it's based on historical performance, and thus might have little bearing on the future. Past is merely prologue, after all. biz.yahoo.com RtS

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