第7名：Oneok燃氣公司

????交易代碼: OKE

????年初至今股票漲幅: 55%

????市值: 84億美元

????500強排名: 189

????由于擔心美國經濟可能陷入二次衰退，再加上歐債危機，投資者轉為防御型，紛紛轉向包括公用事業股和高派息股在內的安全投資。這個趨勢對總部位于塔爾薩的Oneok股價十分有利。Oneok公司向俄克拉荷馬州、德克薩斯州和堪薩斯州超過200萬用戶輸送天然氣，派息率3%。

????經濟前景黯淡時，投資者們特別青睞公用事業公司，因為不管什么時候，消費者們總得用電用氣。

????這家公司還參股了全美天然氣采集、處理和運輸公司Oneok Partners，同樣獲得了收益。

????Oneok股價的飆升始于9月份，當時它上調了2012年盈利預測，原因是近期完工的Bakken Shale, Cana-Woodford Shale和Granite Wash油田項目將提振產量。

#7 Oneok

????Ticker: OKE

????YTD stock performance: 55%

????Market cap: $8.4 billion

????Fortune 500 Rank: 189

????As fears of a double-dip recession and Europe's debt crisis gripped markets, investors got defensive and shifted into safe investments, including utilities and dividend-paying stocks. That dynamic favored shares of Tulsa-based Oneok, which distributes natural gas to more than 2 million customers throughout Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, and pays a dividend of 3%.

????Investors are particularly attracted to utility companies when the economic outlook seems dim, since consumers are always in need of gas and electricity.

????The company also benefits from its stake in Oneok Partners, which gathers, processes, stores and transports natural gas across the country.

????Oneok's stock began to take off in September, after the company raised its 2012 earnings forecast, citing a boost from recently completed projects in the Bakken Shale, Cana-Woodford Shale and Granite Wash oil fields.