TECO Energy, Inc. (NYSE:TE)

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Filling out my CAPS player with highly-ranked dividend payers.

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TECO Energy, Inc. has a solid customer base and diversified holdings that give it a broad and stable foundation to continue earning into the future.

Energy is always in demand and this is great COmpany with good eanring and pays a great dividend

energy is going to be a great pick

Stock has lagged the merket for utilities in Florida. It has good earnings and great dividend.

I like energy plays. I like this more that is a holding company for energy companies.

buy for 20% gain

DEFENSE, DEFENSE!

P/E 10.1 OR LESS
MARKET CAP 730+M

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#48 yield in S & P 500 as of 04/01/08.

Electric, and gas company that's serving Tampa area. It's revenue and customers are growing

Fundamentals are showing improvement

This CAPS account is tracking the 200 highest yielding S&P stocks.

good stable client base in Tampa area, good dividend growth, automatic dividend reinvest without adding to cost basis.

I think this is a good utility...still cheap and great dividend

Good dividend at 4.9% and at a solid floor. The cycle is due to come back up. Meanwhile they are positioning themselves to use abundant biomass (as is Alliant) as a very cost effective means of reducing carbon emissions. (see http://www.treepower.org/faq/air.html) This head start will become more meaningful as some sort of carbon cap/trade or tax gets implemented (as one surely will be over the next several years). On the downside: they are playing around with coal to liquid syngas in their coal side of the business. This is a dead end that may promote energy independence but does so at the expense of greenhouse gas increases. Fed support of it is pandering that will eventually die. Better to press for the Feds to heavily promote PHEVs which would significantly reduce greenhouse gases while still promoting energy independence/national security.

Even more clever than biomass cofiring, btw, is NRG's playing around with algae bioreactors, sequestering CO2 in oil-rich algae at the stack and processing it into useful products including biofuels.

Compared to other means of carbon reduction in existing coal-fired plants (the bulk of US energy production), like sequestration and pumping into old oil fields or under the ocean floor, these methods are simple, effective, elegant, and cheap.

A good one to buy now and check on it in five years.