Discover which stocks outperformed yesterday's bearish market

Against the current: Markets slid, yet NRG Energy Inc, NextEra Energy, Korea Electric Power Corporation went up and made this list of yesterday's top utilities stocks gainers.

Leading equity indices in the US declined as after dropping 0.35%, Nasdaq closed at 12,300. S&P 500 lost 0.16% and ended the session at 4,124.

While price action maintains a negative bias, United States CFTC Crude Oil speculative net positions released yesterday at 20:30 UTC with a figure of 216,600, while the previous figure was 214,800.

Even though markets fell yesterday, some utilities stocks were bullish. Have a look at these Top Gainers from yesterday's session:

+2.44%: NextEra Energy closes at $77.96 after gaining 2.44%

Bullish sentiment helped the US electricity supplier to hammer out a noteworthy $76.58 to $78 range yesterday, and finally closing at $77.96 to end the session. The company has a market cap of $157.75 billion with an average daily trading volume of 6.67 million shares. So far this year, it has been doing worse than the S&P 500 by 14.72%.

+5.64%: NRG gains 5.64% within $30.62 to $33.06 daily range

NRG Energy rallied 5.64% and ended the session at $32.79. The company is currently trading with a market cap of $7.55 billion with an average daily volume of 4.40 million shares. So far this year, it has been under-performing the S&P 500 by 4.71%.

Korea Electric Power | Up 2.34% to $7.44 yesterday

Korea Electric Power hit a significant low of $5.8 around 6 months ago, but has since recovered 25.34%. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 19.61%. Korea Electric Power's market cap currently stands at $9.55 billion with an average daily trading volume of 171,052 shares.