Find out which stocks performed best in yesterday's range-bound market

Markets were flat yesterday, yet Fortis Inc., PG&E Corporation, NextEra Energy showed impressive gains and made this list of top gainers.

Markets completed a mixed session yesterday while Dow Jones shed 0.17% and closed at 33,619. Nasdaq ended the session at 12,257 after a 0.18% gain.

Despite yesterday's flat session, several utilities stocks are managing to post notable gains. Take a look at the market's Top Gainers:

+0.73%: risk-on sentiment allowed NextEra Energy to post 0.73% gain yesterday

After ending Friday at $75.51, NextEra Energy spiked to $76.69 yesterday, dropped back to starting point range, and rallied again to $76.06. Currently, the American electric services company has a market capitalization of $153.90 billion with an average daily volume of 6.54 million shares. So far this year, it has been doing worse than the S&P 500 by 16.88%.

+0.81%: solid session for Fortis generates 0.81% gain yesterday

After ending Friday at $45.45, Fortis went up to $46.15 only to drop back, yet still traded well overall and closed at $45.82 yesterday. The Canadian diversified electric utility's market cap currently stands at $22.19 billion with an average daily trading volume of 464,915 shares. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 2%.

Pacific Gas & Electric | Closed +0.81% at $17.41

The gas company reached a significant high of $17.41 around a day ago but has lost 0.8% since then. So far this year, it has been doing worse than the Nasdaq by 4.15%. Pacific Gas & Electric has a market cap of $39.67 billion with an average daily trading volume of 13.74 million shares.