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Both Southern Company and Duke Energy are locking in massive data center contracts, but funding billions in new generation while protecting a retirement income payout creates a tension only one of them has actually solved.

With Treasury yields climbing past 5% and both utility giants sliding in price, picking the wrong one for your retirement portfolio could cost you years of lost income or growth. The answer depends entirely on which problem you are trying to solve.

The latest trading day saw Southern Co. (SO) settling at $83.45, representing a +1.34% change from its previous close.

These stocks are good value buys, with safe-looking dividends yielding between 2.7% and 3.8%.

The latest disclosures show that President Donald Trump loaded up on Southern Company (NYSE:SO) and Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) in July, filed on September 22. Both trades were pure buys, with no sell activity on either name anywhere in the filing. Insider Monkey’s proprietary database of billionaire-held stocks tells a different story. On a net basis, […]

The utility company lives up to the industry's reputation for producing good -- though not thrilling -- investment income.

Southern (SO) is back in focus after signing a new nuclear power agreement with Google, linking future capacity upgrades at Georgia reactors to zero emission credits for the tech giant. Southern’s share price has pulled back in recent months, with a 30-day share price return down 7.66% and a 90-day move down 14.70%, while the 3-year total shareholder return of 42% and 5-year total shareholder return of 61.13% point to a stronger longer-run record. Recent selling pressure suggests that...

Michigan's utility giant just locked in hyperscale data center deals with Oracle and Alphabet while its stock slid nearly 10% in a month, creating a rare gap between what the market sees and what the load growth math suggests.

This power generator sent billions back to its owners. But with its stock falling and key markets in flux, shareholders are now asking what that money truly bought.

Data centers are quietly reshaping which utility stocks deserve a spot in an income portfolio, and four regulated electric companies just locked in contracts that could rewrite their dividend growth stories for the next decade.

The heavy selling pressure might have exhausted for Southern Co. (SO) as it is technically in oversold territory now. In addition to this technical measure, strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher indicates that the stock is ripe for a trend reversal.

Southern Company just struck a nuclear power deal with Google. Here's what it, plus a record AI power boom, could mean for SO stock.

Southern Co. (SO) concluded the recent trading session at $83.47, signifying a -1.97% move from its prior day's close.

Google is moving from buying clean electricity to helping create more of it at existing nuclear plants. On September 21, Georgia Power and Google announced an agreement supporting uprates at the Vogtle and Hatch nuclear stations that could add roughly 96 megawatts, subject to regulatory approval. That links Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) directly with The Southern […]

England’s first new reservoir in 30 years is expected to be delayed, raising concerns about water shortages.

Duke Energy and Southern Company both serve regulated Southern markets, both raise their dividends annually, and both benefit from surging data center demand, but a close look at their balance sheets and capital plans reveals a clear winner for retirement income portfolios.

Southern Company's Georgia Power plans nuclear upgrades with Google, potentially adding 96 MW while targeting $900 million in projected customer benefits.

Energy stocks were lower late Tuesday afternoon, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index down 0.5% and the

PG&E (PCG) trades at about $12.94, the bottom of its 52-week range and about 32% below its high. Over the past twelve months it lost 12.2% while the S&P 500 gained 18.5%. That gap did not come from a market crash. And in market shocks since 2007, its deepest fall includes a one-day break in PG&E's own price data.

Energy stocks traded mixed Tuesday afternoon, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index up 0.3% and the Stat

The Nasdaq Composite was up, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down, and the S&P 500 Index was ro

Where you park a high-yield dividend stock can quietly cost you thousands in taxes every single year, and REITs and MLPs carry the steepest penalty of all for investors sitting in the wrong account.

Academy Sports and Outdoors recently reported higher second-quarter and first-half sales and net income versus a year earlier, lifted earnings per share, affirmed full-year net sales and profit guidance ranges, and slightly raised its diluted EPS outlook, while continuing share repurchases and maintaining a quarterly US$0.15 dividend. Together with the planned rollout of Hoka performance running shoes across select Southern stores and online, these updates highlight Academy’s push to broaden...

PG&E (PCG) has lost about 13% over the past twelve months while the S&P 500 gained 17%. The California utility now trades at 9.5 times earnings against an S&P 500 median of 22.9, the kind of gap value buyers hunt for. So what has the market marked down: the utility, or the state it operates in.

In the most recent trading session, Southern Co. (SO) closed at $86.01, indicating a -1.14% shift from the previous trading day.

The Competition and Markets Authority said the deal between the mutuals, which was announced in April, could ‘substantially’ lessen competition.

Southern has seen its share price move around over the years, and with the stock now around recent levels, the key issue is whether that price still lines up with what the business is earning. Recent news around new solar projects and energy reliability contracts puts a fresh spotlight on how those earnings stack up against the current valuation. Southern has delivered a total return of 63.3% over the past 5 years, which now raises the question of how much of that performance is justified by...

Elon Musk and a sitting governor are telling Americans that AI data centers push electricity bills down, but the numbers consumers are actually paying tell a very different story.

Southern Company and NextEra Energy both promise reliable retirement income, but one delivers more cash today while the other builds a far larger stream over time. Knowing which trade-off fits your situation changes everything about how you allocate your utility dollars.

Every year a regulated utility dividend lands in a taxable account, the IRS quietly clips a piece before reinvestment even starts. Southern Company and Consolidated Edison look like very different investments once you account for where you hold them.

Building a retirement income sleeve around seven funds sounds like diversification, but the largest position in this blueprint has a quiet habit of inflating its own payout once a year without ever promising to repeat it.

NextEra Energy's renewable backlog, Florida demand and earnings growth support steady performance, but its premium valuation may warrant patience.

Data centers are doubling their power demands almost overnight, and regulated utilities that lock in long-term supply contracts stand to collect that revenue for decades. Five names are positioned at the center of this shift, but each carries a different risk that could make or break your income stream.

Modular PowerBlocks will provide standby power and peak shaving at the campus

Energy stocks were mixed Thursday afternoon, with the NYSE Energy Sector Index fractionally higher a

Investing.com -- OpenAI (NASDAQ:OAI) Chief Executive Sam Altman is pitching the company's cybersecurity capabilities to major U.S. utility executives as the power sector faces growing threats from autonomous cyberattacks, according to a report from POLITICO. The outreach comes as the artificial intelligence developer seeks to address mounting concerns following revelations that its own AI models were involved in a sophisticated, multi-day breach of tech platform Hugging Face. During a meeting at

SO's PowerSecure lands a data center deal with Keel Infrastructure, delivering scalable backup power and peak-shaving capabilities.

Vistra (VST) has fallen about 19% over the past twelve months and trades roughly 30% below its 52-week high, with softer ERCOT power prices and an expected pause in some Texas data-center reviews among the worries. Underneath that tape, the company keeps handing its owners a bigger slice of itself. That is no longer the reason to buy the stock.

With the support of a 2.2-gigawatt power pipeline, the deal is a part of Keel’s transition from Bitcoin mining to AI and HPC data centers.

SO benefits from strong power demand, OpenAI's long-term contract and regulated growth prospects, while high capital needs, rising debt costs and weak returns remain concerns.

Texas regulators just froze data-center hookups, and one application fee cut AEP Ohio's pipeline by more than half overnight. Whether that unravels the entire investment case for the most popular utility ETF on the market depends on a number almost no one is auditing.

The Southern Company (NYSE:SO) cleared the Georgia Public Service Commission review process for Georgia Power to serve an OpenAI data center project in Effingham County, Georgia. The 25-year agreement covers approximately 3.2 gigawatts of new demand. According to Georgia Power, OpenAI will pay the full infrastructure and electric-service costs required to serve the facility and […]

Not every dividend stock survives a recession with its payout intact, but regulated utilities operate under a different set of rules entirely. These three have raised dividends for decades by design, and the mechanics behind that streak are worth understanding before the next downturn tests your portfolio.

Southern Company has underperformed the Dow over the past year, and analysts are cautious about the stock’s prospects.

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Most retirees assume hitting a $68,400 annual income floor demands either a massive nest egg or risky high-yield instruments, but five ordinary dividend stocks across five sectors challenge both assumptions in ways the math makes hard to ignore.

The company is chasing the data center boom, but after a pullback in the shares, you have to weigh a strong recovery record against some very real market pressures.

PG&E's cash-flow multiple sits far below the market's, and the company says its capital plan is premised on how California resolves wildfire liability.

XLU gives you exposure to over 30 utilities, but the AI data-center boom is quietly concentrating inside just a handful of them, and owning the fund means paying for a lot of names that will miss the surge entirely.

On Aug. 28, 2026, California's largest utility tumbled 7.52% as lawmakers race toward a key legislative deadline on wildfire-liability protections.