These Gas Stocks Could Heat Up

The natural gas business is a strange place for investors these days.

With mixed pricing and demand signals coming in from consumers and producers, it hasn't been easy to figure out the winners and the losers.

The average price of the near-term natural gas contract traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange has been 2% higher than it was last year, and total domestic consumption of natural gas is up nearly 6% over the same period a year ago. The Interstate National Gas Association predicts that domestic demand for natural gas will grow by roughly 30% by 2020. ...