Seven of UTLT’s top-10 holdings are U.S.-based companies, including familiar names such as Southern (NYSE: SO), Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) and American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP). As has been previously noted, developed market dividend payers often feature higher yields than their U.S. counterparts from the same sectors and that is true of UTLT as the ETF sports a trailing 12-month yield advantage of about 10 basis points over XLU. [Strong Yields on Global ETFs]
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. electricity sales to the residential sector are expected to be 1.7% higher in 2014 year-over-year but fall by 0.3% in 2015. Additionally, U.S. commercial sector electricity is expected to average 0.9% higher in 2014 and grow 0.4% in 2015.
UTLT, which tracks the DBIQ Regulated Utilities Index, charges 0.45% per year.
Deutsche X-Trackers Regulated Utilities Fund
