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CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
$28.48
-1.8%
$25.94
$19.29
$29.25
$8.24B1.13790,429 shs456,947 shs
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
$1,130.70
-2.5%
$1,140.89
$773.74
$1,219.94
$179.63B1.45658,210 shs1.05 million shs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
$759.22
-0.5%
$766.45
$439.38
$825.25
$231.07B1.422.11 million shs1.78 million shs
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$92.18
-0.6%
$89.69
$81.47
$96.50
$11.07B0.461.08 million shs1.31 million shs
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$96.96
-0.8%
$94.12
$80.46
$100.83
$107.46B0.435.37 million shs4.58 million shs
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
$90.61
-1.0%
$86.73
$71.02
$93.77
$22.34B0.5211.39 million shs11.04 million shs
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Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
-1.95%+6.01%+14.24%+3.24%-1.42%
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
-2.53%-5.24%-1.06%+0.92%+13.01%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
-0.51%-1.58%-5.62%+5.92%+46.60%
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
-0.63%-1.40%+6.45%-0.97%+5.40%
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
-0.87%-2.85%+5.55%+1.85%+4.56%
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
-1.02%-1.19%+6.66%+7.35%+10.97%
CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
$28.48
-1.8%
$25.94
$19.29
$29.25
$8.24B1.13790,429 shs456,947 shs
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
$1,130.70
-2.5%
$1,140.89
$773.74
$1,219.94
$179.63B1.45658,210 shs1.05 million shs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
$759.22
-0.5%
$766.45
$439.38
$825.25
$231.07B1.422.11 million shs1.78 million shs
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$92.18
-0.6%
$89.69
$81.47
$96.50
$11.07B0.461.08 million shs1.31 million shs
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$96.96
-0.8%
$94.12
$80.46
$100.83
$107.46B0.435.37 million shs4.58 million shs
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
$90.61
-1.0%
$86.73
$71.02
$93.77
$22.34B0.5211.39 million shs11.04 million shs
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Compare Price Performance

Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
-1.95%+6.01%+14.24%+3.24%-1.42%
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
-2.53%-5.24%-1.06%+0.92%+13.01%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
-0.51%-1.58%-5.62%+5.92%+46.60%
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
-0.63%-1.40%+6.45%-0.97%+5.40%
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
-0.87%-2.85%+5.55%+1.85%+4.56%
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
-1.02%-1.19%+6.66%+7.35%+10.97%
CompanyConsensus Rating ScoreConsensus RatingConsensus Price Target% Upside from Current Price
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
2.70
Moderate Buy$30.336.51% Upside
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
2.85
Moderate Buy$1,299.2914.91% Upside
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
2.10
Hold$779.502.67% Upside
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
2.27
Hold$96.504.68% Upside
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
2.33
Hold$98.831.94% Upside
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
2.61
Moderate Buy$90.61N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest BLK, GS, BEP, SO, PNW, and XLU Analyst Ratings

DateCompanyBrokerageActionRatingPrice TargetDetails
10/21/2025
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
UBS Group
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Reiterated RatingHold
10/21/2025
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
Loop Capital
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Set Price Target$1,255.00
10/21/2025
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
BTIG Research
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Initiated CoverageNeutral
10/21/2025
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
CIBC
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Reiterated RatingOutperform$33.00
10/21/2025
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
BMO Capital Markets
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Boost Price TargetOutperform$1,280.00 ➝ $1,300.00
10/21/2025
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Reiterated RatingOverweightNeutral$625.00 ➝ $750.00
10/20/2025
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
BMO Capital Markets
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Reiterated RatingMarket Perform$99.00
10/17/2025
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
BNP Paribas Exane
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Boost Price TargetNeutral$685.00 ➝ $775.00
10/17/2025
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
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Boost Price TargetMarket Perform$850.00 ➝ $870.00
10/17/2025
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
LADENBURG THALM/SH SH
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Reiterated RatingBuyNeutral$99.50 ➝ $102.50
10/16/2025
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
Citigroup
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Boost Price TargetNeutral$700.00 ➝ $765.00
(Data available from 10/22/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)
CompanyAnnual RevenuePrice/SalesCashflowPrice/CashBook ValuePrice/Book
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
$5.88B1.38$6.90 per share4.13$125.61 per share0.23
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
$20.41B8.58$45.25 per share24.99$307.71 per share3.67
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
$126.85B1.81$53.39 per share14.22$409.62 per share1.85
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$5.12B2.15$17.39 per share5.30$60.31 per share1.53
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$26.72B3.99$8.80 per share11.02$33.47 per share2.90
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
CompanyNet IncomeEPSTrailing P/E RatioForward P/E RatioP/E GrowthNet MarginsReturn on Equity (ROE)Return on Assets (ROA)Next Earnings Date
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
-$181M-$0.95N/AN/AN/A2.28%0.44%0.16%11/5/2025 (Estimated)
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
$6.37B$38.8929.0720.922.0126.64%15.36%5.22%N/A
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
$14.28B$49.2315.4214.581.4113.18%14.79%0.95%N/A
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$608.81M$4.8519.0120.359.6010.96%8.45%2.12%11/3/2025 (Confirmed)
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$4.40B$3.8924.9221.123.4615.10%12.09%3.06%10/30/2025 (Estimated)
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
N/AN/A20.74N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Latest BLK, GS, BEP, SO, PNW, and XLU Earnings

DateQuarterCompanyConsensus EstimateReported EPSBeat/MissGap EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueDetails
11/5/2025Q3 2025
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
-$0.48N/AN/AN/A$1.61 billionN/A
11/3/2025Q3 2025
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$2.79N/AN/AN/A$1.78 billionN/A
10/30/2025Q3 2025
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$1.46N/AN/AN/A$8.04 billionN/A
10/14/2025Q3 2025
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
$11.78$11.55-$0.23$8.43$6.22 billion$6.51 billion
10/14/2025Q3 2025
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
$10.27$12.25+$1.98$12.25$13.68 billion$11.33 billion
8/6/2025Q2 2025
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$1.58$1.58N/A$1.58$1.35 billion$1.36 billion
8/1/2025Q2 2025
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
-$0.19-$0.22-$0.03-$0.22$1.64 billion$1.69 billion
7/31/2025Q2 2025
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$0.9910$0.91-$0.0810$0.79$6.70 billion$6.97 billion
CompanyAnnual PayoutDividend Yield3-Year Dividend GrowthPayout RatioYears of Consecutive Growth
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
$1.495.23%N/AN/A 2 Years
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
$20.841.84%N/A53.59%16 Years
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
$16.002.11%N/A32.50%13 Years
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
$3.583.88%N/A73.81%N/A
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
$2.963.05%N/A76.09%25 Years
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
$2.302.54%N/AN/AN/A

Latest BLK, GS, BEP, SO, PNW, and XLU Dividends

AnnouncementCompanyPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable Date
10/14/2025
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
quarterly$4.002.03%12/2/202512/2/202512/30/2025
10/20/2025
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
quarterly$0.743.03%11/17/202511/17/202512/8/2025
8/1/2025
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
quarterly$0.37305.88%8/29/20258/29/20259/30/2025
7/23/2025
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
quarterly$5.211.9%9/5/20259/5/20259/23/2025
(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)
CompanyDebt-to-Equity RatioCurrent RatioQuick Ratio
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
0.97
0.44
0.44
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
0.39
4.04
4.04
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
2.23
1.11
0.67
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
1.25
0.52
0.37
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
1.69
0.74
0.54
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
N/AN/AN/A
CompanyEmployeesShares OutstandingFree FloatOptionable
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. stock logo
BEP
Brookfield Renewable Partners
5,270283.90 millionN/AOptionable
BlackRock stock logo
BLK
BlackRock
21,100154.85 million151.79 millionOptionable
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. stock logo
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group
46,500302.72 million301.06 millionOptionable
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation stock logo
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
6,403119.43 million119.15 millionOptionable
Southern Company (The) stock logo
SO
Southern
28,6001.10 billion1.10 billionOptionable
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo
XLU
Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund
N/A246.52 millionN/ANot Optionable

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Brookfield Renewable Partners stock logo

Brookfield Renewable Partners NYSE:BEP

$28.48 -0.53 (-1.83%)
Closing price 10/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$28.64 +0.16 (+0.54%)
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Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. owns a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities primarily in North America, Colombia, and Brazil. The company generates electricity through hydroelectric, wind, solar, distributed generation, and pumped storage, as well as renewable natural gas, carbon capture and storage, recycling, cogeneration biomass, nuclear services, and power transformation. Brookfield Renewable Partners Limited operates as the general partner of Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. The company was formerly known as Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. and changed its name to Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. in May 2016. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. was founded in 1999 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P operates as a subsidiary of Brookfield Corporation.

BlackRock stock logo

BlackRock NYSE:BLK

$1,130.70 -29.30 (-2.53%)
Closing price 10/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$1,133.90 +3.20 (+0.28%)
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BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors including corporate, public, union, and industry pension plans, insurance companies, third-party mutual funds, endowments, public institutions, governments, foundations, charities, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, official institutions, and banks. It also provides global risk management and advisory services. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also launches and manages open-end and closed-end mutual funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles including structured funds. The firm launches equity, fixed income, balanced, and real estate mutual funds. It also launches equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset exchange traded funds. The firm also launches and manages hedge funds. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, SMID-cap, large-cap, and multi-cap companies. It also invests in dividend-paying equity securities. The firm invests in investment grade municipal securities, government securities including securities issued or guaranteed by a government or a government agency or instrumentality, corporate bonds, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottom-up and top-down approach to make its investments. The firm employs liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies to make its investments. In real estate sector, it seeks to invest in Poland and Germany. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against various S&P, Russell, Barclays, MSCI, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch indices. BlackRock, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in New York City with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; London, United Kingdom; Gurgaon, India; Hong Kong; Greenwich, Connecticut; Princeton, New Jersey; Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Sydney, Australia; Taipei, Taiwan; Singapore; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington, District of Columbia; Toronto, Canada; Wilmington, Delaware; and San Francisco, California.

The Goldman Sachs Group stock logo

The Goldman Sachs Group NYSE:GS

$759.22 -4.10 (-0.54%)
Closing price 10/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$760.26 +1.03 (+0.14%)
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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., a financial institution, provides a range of financial services for corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals worldwide. It operates through Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management, and Platform Solutions segments. The Global Banking & Markets segment provides financial advisory services, including strategic advisory assignments related to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings, and spin-offs; and relationship lending, and acquisition financing, as well as secured lending, through structured credit and asset-backed lending and involved in financing under securities to resale agreements. This segment also offers client execution activities for cash and derivative instruments; credit and interest rate products; and provision of mortgages, currencies, commodities, and equities related products, as well as underwriting services. The Asset & Wealth Management segment manages assets across various classes, including equity, fixed income, hedge funds, credit funds, private equity, real estate, currencies, and commodities; and provides customized investment advisory solutions, wealth advisory services, personalized financial planning, and private banking services, as well as invests in corporate equity, credit, real estate, and infrastructure assets. The Platform Solutions segment offers credit cards and point-of-sale financing for purchase of goods or services. This segment also provides cash management services, such as deposit-taking and payment solutions for corporate and institutional clients. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Pinnacle West Capital stock logo

Pinnacle West Capital NYSE:PNW

$92.18 -0.55 (-0.59%)
Closing price 10/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$92.26 +0.08 (+0.08%)
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Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, through its subsidiary, provides retail and wholesale electric services primarily in the state of Arizona. The company engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity using coal, nuclear, gas, oil, and solar generating facilities. Its transmission facilities include overhead lines and underground lines; and distribution facilities consist of overhead lines and underground primary cables. The company also owns and maintains transmission and distribution substations; and owns energy storage facilities. Pinnacle West Capital Corporation was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Southern stock logo

Southern NYSE:SO

$96.96 -0.74 (-0.75%)
Closing price 10/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$97.19 +0.23 (+0.24%)
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The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The company also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; and distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as provides gas marketing services, gas distribution operations, and gas pipeline investments operations. In addition, it owns and operates nuclear, coal, hydro, cogeneration, solar, wind, battery storage, and fuel cell facilities. Further, the constructs, operates, and maintains approximately 77,900 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities with total capacity of 157 Bcf to provide natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company serves approximately 8.9 million electric and gas utility customers. Further, it develops distributed energy and resilience solutions; deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers; and offers digital wireless communications and fiber optics services. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund stock logo

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund NYSEARCA:XLU

$90.61 -0.93 (-1.02%)
Closing price 10/21/2025 04:10 PM Eastern
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$90.86 +0.25 (+0.28%)
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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.