Utilities' Valuations Reach Another Peak, but Yield Paradox Persists
U.S. utilities' valuations reached a 14-month high this week when the median price/fair value ratio hit 1.17 for the 40 U.S. utilities in Morningstar's coverage.This is the highest median P/FV ratio for U.S. utilities since the all-time peak of 1.21 in July 2016. Other valuation metrics such as price/earnings (22) and price/book (2.1) for U.S. utilities also hit 2017 highs this week and are approaching peak levels from mid-2016. Morningstar's U.S. Utilities Sector Total Return Index also hit a...
Edison International is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Southern California Edison Company (SCE), which is an investor-owned public utility, the company is primarily engaged in the business of supplying and delivering electricity to southern California. The company is also the parent company of Edison Energy Group, Inc., a holding company for Edison Energy, LLC, which is engaged in the business of providing energy services to commercial and industrial customers. SCE supplies electricity to its customers through transmission and distribution networks. Its transmission facilities include sub-transmission facilities and are located primarily in California but also in Nevada and Arizona.
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