With all the stock market’s volatility, few sectors have been as impacted by rate hikes, inflation and economic turbulence as utility stocks. Share prices across the industry dropped in 2022 and 2023, pumping slightly at the end of last year but not enough to offset investor losses. In fact, the only thing keeping utility stock investors happy is dividend yields, which tended to stay steady for the strongest utility stocks on the market.The best utility stocks, to that end, blend three factors: quality fina ...