Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Brokers Targeted 7% To 27.8% Net Gains For Top Ten High Yield Utilities
Five of ten top dividend high yielding utilities were verified as being among the top ten gainers for the coming year based on analyst 1-year target prices. (They're tinted gray in the chart above). Thus, the yield-based forecast for utilities as graded by Wall St. wizards was 50% accurate.
Projections based on estimated dividend returns from $1000 invested in the thirty highest yielding stocks and aggregate one-year analyst mean target prices as reported by YCharts produced the 2019 data.