In your 60s, your investment goals are likely to shift from capital accumulation to a mixture that includes more of a focus on safety and income. As you look to start living off of your nest egg, large U.S. utility Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE:DUK) and consumer product giant The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) can help you make the transition to a new way of thinking about your portfolio. Here’s what you need to know about this pair of high-yielding stocks.
Boring but steady
There’s no way around it — Duke Energy is a pretty boring company. Its core business is a collection of regulated utilities that sell electricity and natural gas to a combined 9.2 million customers. In addition, the company owns midstream natural gas pipelines and a renewable-energy merchant power business. Electric utilities are the core of Duke’s operation, providing 88% of its earnings, with gas utilities and pipelines chipping in 9% and the rest coming from its merchant operations.
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Navigant Consulting, Inc. provides professional services to companies, legal counsel, and governmental agencies Worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Disputes, Investigations & Economics; Financial, Risk & Compliance; Healthcare; and Energy. The Disputes, Investigations & Economics segment provides accounting, financial and economic analysis, discovery support, and data management and analytics services on a range of legal and business issues, such as disputes, investigations, and regulatory matters. This segment serves in-house counsel and law firms, as well as accounting firms, corporate boards, and government agencies. The Financial, Risk & Compliance segment provides strategic, operational, valuation, risk management, investigative, and compliance consulting to the regulated financial services industry. This segment also provides anti-corruption solutions and anti-money laundering, valuation and restructuring consulting, and litigation support and tax compliance services to various industries. The Healthcare segment provides strategic, operational, performance improvement, and business process management services, which include solutions to clients across the healthcare landscape, including revenue cycle management, health systems, physician practice groups, health insurance providers, government, and life sciences companies. The Energy segment provides management advisory services on the issues, such as asset investment management, integrated resource planning, renewables, distributed generation, energy efficiency, and outage management and restoration. This segment serves utility, government, and commercial clients. Navigant Consulting, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
