With 3.02 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.72 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Regulated Electric company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $66.52 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $64.97. The 52-week range on XEL shows that it touched its highest point at $73.38 and its lowest point at $46.79 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $73.00. With its current market cap of 37.69 billion, XEL has annualized dividend of $2.19 while the current yield stands at 3.34%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.44.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of XEL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.89%, but this was down by -7.37% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.17% while six-month performance rose 25.10%. The stock gained 3.00% in the past year, while it has lost -2.78% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for XEL yields 3.37 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.83. For the next quarter, that number is 0.89. This implies an EPS growth rate of 6.30% for this year and 7.43% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.37%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 574.10 million XEL shares are outstanding with a float of 572.53 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 8.96 million, which was 155.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Robert C. Frenzel as the firm’s President, CEO & Chairman, Mr. Brian J. Van Abel serves as its Executive VP, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.81908995 of XEL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, XEL reported revenue of $3644000000.0 and operating income of $911000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1670000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.21.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for XEL since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With XEL analysts setting a high price target of 80.0 and a low target of 62.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 72.38588. Based on these targets, XEL could surge 21.88% to reach the target high and fall by -5.55% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.28% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.59126 being high and $3.5309 being low. For XEL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.56108.
