Utilities stocks finished up 0.4% on Wall Street on Thursday.

More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.4%, the Nasdaq climbed 0.6% and the S&P 500 increased 0.4%.

Some of the biggest gainers among utilities stocks include:

• NRG Energy (NRG): NRG stock is up 1.6% today.

• Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (BIP): BIP stock is up 1.0% today.

• Piedmont Natural Gas Company (PNY): PNY stock is up 1.0% today.

• Huaneng Power Intl (HNP): HNP stock is up 0.9% today.

• Entergy Corp (ETR): ETR stock is up 0.9% today.

• Teco Energy (TE): TE stock is up 0.8% today.

• One Gas Inc. (OGS): OGS stock is up 0.7% today.

• Itc Holdings (ITC): ITC stock is up 0.7% today.

• The Aes Corp (AES): AES stock is up 0.7% today.

• Empire District Electric Company (EDE): EDE stock is up 0.6% today.

Some of the biggest losers among utilities stocks include:

• TCP Pipelines (TCP): TCP stock is down 2.2% today.

• Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE): HE stock is down 1.4% today.

• California Water Service Group Holding (CWT): CWT stock is down 1.1% today.

• Otter Tail Corp (OTTR): OTTR stock is down 0.9% today.

• Spectra Energy Corp (SE): SE stock is down 0.8% today.

• Ormat Technologies (ORA): ORA stock is down 0.8% today.

• Dynegy Inc (DYN): DYN stock is down 0.7% today.

• Westar Energy (WR): WR stock is down 0.7% today.

• Avista Corp (AVA): AVA stock is down 0.7% today.

• Potomac Electric Power Company (POM): POM stock is down 0.6% today.

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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.