1 Energy Stock for Long-Term Investors and 2 Facing Headwinds

Even if they go mostly unnoticed, energy businesses are the backbone of our country, providing the energy we need to power our lives and businesses.But they are at the whim of volatile macroeconomic factors that influence capital spending (like interest rates and commodity prices), and the industry has underperformed the market over the past six months as its 2.4% return lagged the S&P 500 by 11 percentage points.