March 13 — Customer growth and capital spending drive earnings for the utilities sector, along with regulator-determined return on equity and a company’s capital structure, the bank’s analysts said. It is the last metric, the companies’ use of debt and equity to finance growth projects and operations, that could raise concerns for some gas utilities and make certain stocks in the space more attractive than others, in UBS’s view.
— S&P Global
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