Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Brokers Targeted 11% To 31.6% Net Gains For Top Ten Utilities To April 2019
Seven of ten top dividend-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 70% 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