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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AEP American Electric Power	$111.99 -0.8%	$106.71	$89.91 ▼ $115.36	$59.89B	0.4	3.63 million shs	2.35 million shs
BE Bloom Energy	$45.32 +0.5%	$28.57	$9.02 ▼ $47.21	$10.60B	3.28	12.56 million shs	12.43 million shs
GOOG Alphabet	$204.91 +0.5%	$185.21	$142.66 ▼ $208.70	$2.48T	1.02	24.04 million shs	21.10 million shs
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$85.62 -0.3%	$83.11	$71.02 ▼ $87.67	$20.31B	0.52	11.61 million shs	14.79 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AEP American Electric Power	0.00%	-0.45%	+4.27%	+7.91%	+15.53%
BE Bloom Energy	0.00%	+23.15%	+81.21%	+134.94%	+290.35%
GOOG Alphabet	0.00%	+1.39%	+10.20%	+22.06%	+24.38%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	0.00%	-0.65%	+2.23%	+3.74%	+15.02%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AEP American Electric Power	4.3238 of 5 stars	2.1	2.0	4.2	1.0	4.1	2.5	1.9
BE Bloom Energy	3.2229 of 5 stars	2.3	1.0	0.0	2.3	3.8	2.5	0.6
GOOG Alphabet	4.6488 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	1.7	2.9	4.0	1.7	3.1
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AEP American Electric Power	2.29	Hold	$111.29	-0.63% Downside
BE Bloom Energy	2.57	Moderate Buy	$26.39	-41.76% Downside
GOOG Alphabet	2.77	Moderate Buy	$215.19	5.02% Upside
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	2.48	Hold	$85.62	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest AEP, GOOG, BE, and XLU Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/1/2025	AEP American Electric Power	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$105.00 ➝ $111.00
8/1/2025	BE Bloom Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$35.00 ➝ $44.00
8/1/2025	BE Bloom Energy	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$22.00 ➝ $38.00
7/31/2025	AEP American Electric Power	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$102.00 ➝ $114.00
7/31/2025	AEP American Electric Power	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$115.00 ➝ $122.00
7/31/2025	AEP American Electric Power	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sell ➝ Sell	$100.00 ➝ $110.00
7/31/2025	AEP American Electric Power	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$109.00 ➝ $116.00
7/25/2025	BE Bloom Energy	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$29.00 ➝ $41.00
7/24/2025	GOOG Alphabet	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$185.00 ➝ $210.00
7/24/2025	GOOG Alphabet	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$220.00 ➝ $235.00
7/24/2025	GOOG Alphabet	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$200.00 ➝ $232.00

(Data available from 8/18/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AEP American Electric Power	$19.72B	3.04	$11.98 per share	9.35	$50.71 per share	2.21
BE Bloom Energy	$1.47B	7.20	$0.18 per share	250.32	$2.55 per share	17.77
GOOG Alphabet	$350.02B	7.08	$9.47 per share	21.64	$26.67 per share	7.68
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AEP American Electric Power	$2.97B	$6.84	16.37	17.80	2.97	17.68%	11.55%	3.11%	11/5/2025 (Estimated)
BE Bloom Energy	-$29.23M	$0.04	1,133.28	N/A	N/A	1.45%	6.80%	1.48%	11/6/2025 (Estimated)
GOOG Alphabet	$100.12B	$9.39	21.82	20.03	1.38	31.12%	34.31%	24.88%	11/4/2025 (Estimated)
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	20.74	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest AEP, GOOG, BE, and XLU Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/31/2025	Q2 2025	BE Bloom Energy	$0.02	$0.10	+$0.08	-$0.18	$382.23 million	$401.24 million
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	AEP American Electric Power	$1.27	$1.43	+$0.16	$2.29	$4.85 billion	$5.09 billion
7/23/2025	Q2 2025	GOOG Alphabet	$2.12	$2.31	+$0.19	$5.12	$93.67 billion	$96.43 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AEP American Electric Power	$3.72	3.32%	N/A	54.39%	15 Years
BE Bloom Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
GOOG Alphabet	$0.84	0.41%	N/A	8.95%	1 Years
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$2.28	2.66%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest AEP, GOOG, BE, and XLU Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/21/2025	GOOG Alphabet	quarterly	$0.21	0.4%	9/8/2025	9/8/2025	9/15/2025
7/22/2025	AEP American Electric Power	quarterly	$0.93	3.38%	8/8/2025	8/8/2025	9/10/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AEP American Electric Power	1.33	0.55	0.41
BE Bloom Energy	2.18	4.99	3.21
GOOG Alphabet	0.07	1.90	1.90
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AEP American Electric Power	75.24%
BE Bloom Energy	77.04%
GOOG Alphabet	27.26%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	90.06%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AEP American Electric Power	0.07%
BE Bloom Energy	3.50%
GOOG Alphabet	12.99%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AEP American Electric Power	16,330	534.79 million	534.42 million	Optionable
BE Bloom Energy	2,127	234.00 million	225.81 million	Optionable
GOOG Alphabet	190,200	12.09 billion	10.52 billion	Optionable
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	246.72 million	N/A	Not Optionable

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AEP, GOOG, BE, and XLU Company Descriptions

American Electric Power NASDAQ:AEP

$111.99 -0.87 (-0.77%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$111.98 -0.02 (-0.01%)

As of 08/15/2025 07:55 PM Eastern

American Electric Power Company, Inc., an electric public utility holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale to retail and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through Vertically Integrated Utilities, Transmission and Distribution Utilities, AEP Transmission Holdco, and Generation & Marketing segments. The company generates electricity using coal and lignite, natural gas, renewable, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, and other energy sources. It also supplies and markets electric power at wholesale to other electric utility companies, rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, and other market participants. American Electric Power Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1906 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Bloom Energy NYSE:BE

$45.32 +0.21 (+0.47%)

As of 08/15/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Bloom Energy Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, and installs solid-oxide fuel cell systems for on-site power generation in the United States and internationally. The company offers Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide technology that converts fuel, such as natural gas, biogas, hydrogen, or a blend of these fuels into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion. It sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to utilities, data centers, agriculture, retail, hospitals, higher education, biotech, and manufacturing industries. The company was formerly known as Ion America Corp. and changed its name to Bloom Energy Corporation in 2006. Bloom Energy Corporation was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOG

$204.91 +1.09 (+0.53%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$204.96 +0.05 (+0.02%)

As of 08/15/2025 08:00 PM Eastern

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. It is also involved in the sale of apps and in-app purchases and digital content in the Google Play and YouTube; and devices, as well as in the provision of YouTube consumer subscription services. The Google Cloud segment offers infrastructure, cybersecurity, databases, analytics, AI, and other services; Google Workspace that include cloud-based communication and collaboration tools for enterprises, such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Meet; and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment sells healthcare-related and internet services. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund NYSEARCA:XLU

$85.62 -0.25 (-0.29%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 04:10 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$85.55 -0.07 (-0.09%)

As of 08/15/2025 07:55 PM Eastern

Select Sector Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (the Fund), formerly Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund, seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of the Utilities Select Sector of the S&P 500 Index (the Index). The Index includes companies from industries, such as electric utilities, multi-utilities, independent power producers and energy traders, and gas utilities. The Fund utilizes a passive or indexing investment approach to attempt to approximate the investment performance of the Index. The Fund's investment advisor is SSgA Funds Management, Inc.

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