Power Hungry: Strategic Investing in Telecommunications, Utilities, and Other Essential Services - Hardcover

Conrad, Roger S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047144295X ISBN 13: 9780471442950

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Synopsis

The best strategies for investing in the utilities industry
With the deregulation of the utility industry, the entire landscape of the power economy has greatly changed. This has had a dramatic impact on consumers, corporations, and especially investors. The only book focused on investing within the energy, communications, and water industries, Power Hungry offers a comprehensive look at the considerable opportunities arising from these industries. Along with providing one–of–a–kind investment strategies for investing in utilities and other essential services, Power Hungry provides a framework for readers to construct their own model portfolio of stocks, commission–free, so they can reap the rewards of a field with enormous profit potential. Established companies may no longer hold the lion′s share of the marketplace, but this book corners the market on investing in these profitable industries.

About this title

About the Author

ROGER S. CONRAD edits Utility Forecaster, a twelve–year–old newsletter from KCI Communications which has a subscription list of more than 20,000. He is also the coauthor of two other books.

From the Back Cover

The Best Strategies for Investing in the Power Industry

The face of the utilities industry has changed dramatically since the deregulation laws were passed. And, in many ways, this has affected no one more than investors in this industry. How can you, as a sophisticated individual investor, take advantage of the recent changes and avoid the pitfalls while navigating this new terrain?

Written by industry expert Roger Conrad, Power Hungry can help you profit from the enormous potential in this field. Power Hungry details for the investor:
* How energy deregulation works
* The role of new technology in the utilities industry
* The aftermath of utility deregulation
* The most effective criteria for picking the best utility stocks

As the only book focused on investing within the energy, communications, and water industries, Power Hungry offers a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of the utility industry, allowing you to make the most profitable investing decisions.

From the Inside Flap

Over the past decade, the utilities industry has been turned upside down. Convinced America's electricity, gas, communications, and water could be provided more efficiently and cheaply in a competitive market, state and federal lawmakers have deregulated these industries, only to find the former monopolies grow in size, while smaller competitors are either overtaken or forced into bankruptcy. This deregulation has had a dramatic effect on consumers, corporations, and especially investors.

Power Hungry: Strategic Investing in Telecommunica-tions, Utilities & Other Essential Services takes a comprehensive look at these industries and shows you how to take advantage of the changes within them over the last decade. Despite new risks, there are considerable opportunities to profit from these changes by investing in select companies. Power Hungry provides one-of-a-kind strategies for investing in utilities and other essential services, along with the framework needed to construct your own model portfolio of stocks-commission-free-to reap the rewards in these industries filled with enormous profit potential.

A full examination of the energy, communications, and water industries gives you a complete understanding of where they stand, where they are headed in the future, and who is likely to profit. Profiles of industry experts and leaders-Jonathan Gottlieb, Robert Fagan, Richard Green, Nick DeBenedictus, and many others-provide an insider's view of what is likely to come next and where investors can look within these industries for maximum return on investments. Specific chapters include "Five Rules for Investing Success" within these industries and "The Consumer's Guide to Utility Deregulation" so that you can identify companies of any size that are offering long-term investors the prospect of massive returns. As companies compete for a piece of the deregulated markets in the years to come, Power Hungry will help you figure out where and when to invest.

Picking utility stocks is more lucrative than ever. With Power Hungry as your guide, you can navigate this new era in utilities and essential services and corner the market on investing in these profitable industries.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 047144295X
• ISBN 13: 9780471442950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336