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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
DUK Duke Energy	$128.33 +2.0%	$124.90	$113.89 ▼ $134.49	$100.00B	0.38	3.95 million shs	3.14 million shs
NEE NextEra Energy	$87.39 +1.2%	$89.42	$69.24 ▼ $98.75	$182.18B	0.67	10.47 million shs	4.98 million shs
SO Southern	$97.23 +2.2%	$93.58	$83.80 ▼ $100.83	$109.61B	0.34	5.90 million shs	1.97 million shs
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	$741.63 -0.6%	$737.69	$617.87 ▼ $760.40	$784.04B	1	71.86 million shs	27.83 million shs
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$45.49 +1.6%	$44.94	$40.17 ▼ $47.80	$23.43B	0.58	24.45 million shs	13.03 million shs
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$45.49 +1.6%	$44.94	$40.17 ▼ $47.80	$23.43B	0.58	24.45 million shs	13.03 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
DUK Duke Energy	-0.75%	-0.46%	+4.95%	-4.94%	+5.81%
NEE NextEra Energy	-1.55%	-1.38%	+3.29%	-7.36%	+18.09%
SO Southern	-0.53%	-0.60%	+6.91%	-2.31%	+3.23%
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	-0.14%	+1.71%	-1.68%	+13.71%	+20.74%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	-1.26%	-1.69%	+3.87%	-3.39%	+9.28%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	-1.26%	-1.69%	+3.87%	-3.39%	+9.28%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
DUK Duke Energy	$128.33 +2.0%	$124.90	$113.89 ▼ $134.49	$100.00B	0.38	3.95 million shs	3.14 million shs
NEE NextEra Energy	$87.39 +1.2%	$89.42	$69.24 ▼ $98.75	$182.18B	0.67	10.47 million shs	4.98 million shs
SO Southern	$97.23 +2.2%	$93.58	$83.80 ▼ $100.83	$109.61B	0.34	5.90 million shs	1.97 million shs
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	$741.63 -0.6%	$737.69	$617.87 ▼ $760.40	$784.04B	1	71.86 million shs	27.83 million shs
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$45.49 +1.6%	$44.94	$40.17 ▼ $47.80	$23.43B	0.58	24.45 million shs	13.03 million shs
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$45.49 +1.6%	$44.94	$40.17 ▼ $47.80	$23.43B	0.58	24.45 million shs	13.03 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
DUK Duke Energy	-0.75%	-0.46%	+4.95%	-4.94%	+5.81%
NEE NextEra Energy	-1.55%	-1.38%	+3.29%	-7.36%	+18.09%
SO Southern	-0.53%	-0.60%	+6.91%	-2.31%	+3.23%
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	-0.14%	+1.71%	-1.68%	+13.71%	+20.74%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	-1.26%	-1.69%	+3.87%	-3.39%	+9.28%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	-1.26%	-1.69%	+3.87%	-3.39%	+9.28%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
DUK Duke Energy	2.53	Moderate Buy	$138.33	7.80% Upside
NEE NextEra Energy	2.86	Moderate Buy	$99.86	14.27% Upside
SO Southern	2.30	Hold	$99.26	2.10% Upside
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	2.82	Moderate Buy	$740.69	-0.13% Downside
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	2.58	Moderate Buy	$45.40	-0.20% Downside
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	2.58	Moderate Buy	$45.40	-0.20% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NEE, DUK, SO, XLU, SPY, and XLU Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
6/25/2026	NEE NextEra Energy	Erste Group Bank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold
6/24/2026	SO Southern	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Underweight	$89.00
6/24/2026	DUK Duke Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target		$132.00 ➝ $136.00
6/24/2026	NEE NextEra Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$111.00 ➝ $117.00
6/22/2026	SO Southern	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$99.00
6/18/2026	SO Southern	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight	$99.00 ➝ $98.00
6/18/2026	DUK Duke Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$143.00 ➝ $134.00
6/18/2026	DUK Duke Energy	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$139.00 ➝ $135.00
6/16/2026	NEE NextEra Energy	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Outperform	$107.00
6/16/2026	NEE NextEra Energy	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform	$107.00
6/16/2026	NEE NextEra Energy	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong-Buy

(Data available from 7/2/2023 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
DUK Duke Energy	$32.24B	3.10	$16.52 per share	7.77	$66.93 per share	1.92
NEE NextEra Energy	$27.41B	6.65	$6.99 per share	12.50	$31.92 per share	2.74
SO Southern	$29.55B	3.71	$9.94 per share	9.78	$35.30 per share	2.75
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
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
DUK Duke Energy	$4.97B	$6.53	19.64	17.97	N/A	15.49%	9.73%	2.64%	8/4/2026 (Estimated)
NEE NextEra Energy	$6.84B	$3.93	22.23	20.04	2.57	29.36%	12.25%	3.78%	7/22/2026 (Estimated)
SO Southern	$4.34B	$3.93	24.74	19.76	2.89	14.46%	12.64%	3.17%	7/30/2026 (Estimated)
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	N/A	N/A	25.94	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	20.74	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	20.74	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest NEE, DUK, SO, XLU, SPY, and XLU Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	SO Southern	$1.03	N/A	N/A	N/A	$7.24 billion	N/A
7/22/2026	Q2 2026	NEE NextEra Energy	$1.08	N/A	N/A	N/A	$8.19 billion	N/A
5/4/2026	Q1 2026	DUK Duke Energy	$1.87	$1.93	+$0.06	$1.97	$8.44 billion	$9.18 billion
4/29/2026	Q1 2026	SO Southern	$1.21	$1.32	+$0.11	$1.20	$8.07 billion	$8.40 billion
4/23/2026	Q1 2026	NEE NextEra Energy	$1.03	$1.09	+$0.06	$1.04	$7.43 billion	$6.70 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
DUK Duke Energy	$4.26	3.39%	+2.01%	65.24%	20 Years
NEE NextEra Energy	$2.49	2.88%	+10.15%	63.36%	31 Years
SO Southern	$3.04	3.19%	+2.97%	77.35%	25 Years
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	$7.52	1.01%	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$1.19	2.66%	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$1.19	2.66%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest NEE, DUK, SO, XLU, SPY, and XLU Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/7/2026	DUK Duke Energy	quarterly	$1.0650	3.52%	5/15/2026	5/15/2026	6/16/2026
5/21/2026	NEE NextEra Energy	quarterly	$0.6232	2.9%	6/5/2026	6/5/2026	6/15/2026
4/20/2026	SO Southern	quarterly	$0.76	3.24%	5/18/2026	5/18/2026	6/8/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
DUK Duke Energy	1.45	0.66	0.44
NEE NextEra Energy	1.41	0.54	0.44
SO Southern	1.68	0.65	0.45
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
DUK Duke Energy	65.31%
NEE NextEra Energy	78.72%
SO Southern	64.10%
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	63.54%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	90.06%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	90.06%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
DUK Duke Energy	0.12%
NEE NextEra Energy	0.18%
SO Southern	0.16%
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
DUK Duke Energy	26,441	779.60 million	778.66 million	Optionable
NEE NextEra Energy	17,400	2.09 billion	2.08 billion	Optionable
SO Southern	29,800	1.13 billion	1.13 billion	Optionable
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	N/A	1.06 billion	N/A	Not Optionable
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	515.00 million	N/A	Not Optionable
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	515.00 million	N/A	Not Optionable

NEE, DUK, SO, XLU, SPY, and XLU Headlines

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NEE, DUK, SO, XLU, SPY, and XLU Company Descriptions

Duke Energy NYSE:DUK

$128.33 +2.56 (+2.03%)

As of 02:19 PM Eastern

Duke Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in the United States. It operates through two segments: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure (EU&I), and Gas Utilities and Infrastructure (GU&I). The EU&I segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity in the Carolinas, Florida, and the Midwest. It generates electricity through coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, solar and wind sources, renewables, and nuclear fuel. This segment also engages in the wholesale of electricity to municipalities, electric cooperative utilities, and load-serving entities. The GU&I segment distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and power generation natural gas customers; and invests in pipeline transmission projects, renewable natural gas projects, and natural gas storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Duke Energy Holding Corp. and changed its name to Duke Energy Corporation in April 2006. Duke Energy Corporation was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

NextEra Energy NYSE:NEE

$87.39 +1.02 (+1.18%)

As of 02:19 PM Eastern

NextEra Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power to retail and wholesale customers in North America. The company generates electricity through wind, solar, nuclear,natural gas, and other clean energy. It also develops, constructs, and operates long-term contracted assets that consists of clean energy solutions, such as renewable generation facilities, battery storage projects, and electric transmission facilities; sells energy commodities; and owns, develops, constructs, manages and operates electric generation facilities in wholesale energy markets. The company had approximately 33,276 megawatts of net generating capacity; approximately 90,000 circuit miles of transmission and distribution lines; and 883 substations. It serves approximately 12 million people through approximately 5.9 million customer accounts in the east and lower west coasts of Florida. The company was formerly known as FPL Group, Inc. and changed its name to NextEra Energy, Inc. in 2010. NextEra Energy, Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida.

Southern NYSE:SO

$97.22 +2.11 (+2.21%)

As of 02:19 PM Eastern

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.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust NYSEARCA:SPY

$741.63 -4.13 (-0.55%)

As of 02:19 PM Eastern

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (the Trust) is a unit investment trust. The Trust seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the S&P 500 Index (the Index). The Trust seeks to achieve this investment objective by holding a portfolio of the common stocks that are included in the Index (the Portfolio), with the weight of each stock in the Portfolio substantially corresponding to the weight of such stock in the Index. The Trust invests in a range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals; oil, gas and consumable fuels; technology hardware storage and peripherals; insurance; information technology (IT) services; healthcare providers and services; semiconductors and semiconductor equipment; hotels, restaurants and leisure, communications equipment; commercial services and supplies; road and rail; real estate management and development; containers and packaging; professional services, and paper and forest products.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund NYSEARCA:XLU

$45.49 +0.72 (+1.60%)

As of 02:19 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.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund NYSEARCA:XLU

$45.49 +0.72 (+1.60%)

As of 02:19 PM Eastern

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