PowerRatings Best of the Requests: ED, CLHB, CVX

This week in PowerRatings Best of the Requests we are seeing a number of high Long Term PowerRatings stocks that we have presented to readers and subscribers in the past few weeks. And from a PowerRatings perspective, many of these stocks - including the three presented here - are just as likely to outperform the average stock in a year's time as they were when we first introduced them.

Consider a stock like Consolidated Edison (ED@ED | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) that investors and long term traders have been analyzing at PowerRatings.net. We last looked at Con Ed in late May when the stock had a Long Term PowerRating of 9.

Consolidated Edison

Since then, the utility has moved lower by a few points, but has maintained its high PowerRating - meaning that this is a stock that investors should continue to keep an eye on. Con Ed's Long Term PowerRating of 9 puts it into that camp of stocks that, according to our research, have been higher one year later more than 79% of the time.

Compare that to the average stock, which has been higher one year later less than 68% of the time.

Consolidated Edison has a P/E of 10.80 and a healthy dividend yield of 6.00.

Clean Harbors (CLHB@CLHB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is a stock that I'm convinced investors have learned about through PowerRatings.net. The stock is neither glamorous nor newsy - Clean Harbors deals with the treatment of non-nuclear hazardous waste in the United States, Canada and Mexico. We brought the stock to investor's attention back in early June - looking at both Clean Harbors and Allied Waste Industries (AW@AW | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) as leading stocks in the Waste Management industry.

Clean Harbors

Clean Harbors, like Consolidated Edison, has a Long Term PowerRating of 9. But unlike Con Ed, CLHB comes from an industry with an Industry PowerRating of 7.

The last stock I want to highlight in today's report is Chevron Corporation (CVX@CVX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating). This stock was in our Most Requested PowerRatings list just a few short weeks ago and - given the fact that crude oil has hit a new record high north of $143 as I write - is likely to be among our most requested stocks in the future.

Chevron Corporation

Chevron has been moving sideways for the past several weeks, ever since peaking in mid-May. The stock has a P/E of 10.90 and provides a modest dividend yield of 2.90. Chevron belongs to the 8-rated Major Integrated Oil and Gas industry, where it is the top rated stock above 7-rated competitors ConocoPhillips (COP@COP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Exxon (XOM@XOM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating).

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David Penn is Senior Editor at PowerRatings.net.