第7名：Oneok燃气公司

    交易代码: OKE

    年初至今股票涨幅: 55%

    市值: 84亿美元

    500强排名: 189

    由于担心美国经济可能陷入二次衰退，再加上欧债危机，投资者转为防御型，纷纷转向包括公用事业股和高派息股在内的安全投资。这个趋势对总部位于塔尔萨的Oneok股价十分有利。Oneok公司向俄克拉荷马州、德克萨斯州和堪萨斯州超过200万用户输送天然气，派息率3%。

    经济前景黯淡时，投资者们特别青睐公用事业公司，因为不管什么时候，消费者们总得用电用气。

    这家公司还参股了全美天然气采集、处理和运输公司Oneok Partners，同样获得了收益。

    Oneok股价的飙升始于9月份，当时它上调了2012年盈利预测，原因是近期完工的Bakken Shale, Cana-Woodford Shale和Granite Wash油田项目将提振产量。

#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.