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To: Jurgis Bekepuris who wrote (44447)	9/21/2011 2:34:54 AM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78519

Jurgis Bekepuris: As I said in a previous post on the subject: "When I looked at the DJ utility index and compared it to the S&P index over the past ten years, the utility index beat the S&P. (And that's not even considering the higher dividend yield of the UTILITIES.) Maybe 5-10 years is too short a time period: over longer times, the S&P seems to win. And maybe going forward, the UTILITIES won't do as well as the S&P components. It just appears to me though, that I and others don't seem to have given UTILITIES the respect for the performance that they've had over the past few years." My point was that there are utility indexes -- cap weighted or price-weighted (DJ) that are beating the s&p index. And if stock pickers are using the s&p for a performance target, maybe they ought to be giving the dull/prosaic utilities more respect than they are getting. Or yes, just ranting on the message board.