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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
NEE NextEra Energy	$72.44 +0.0%	$72.56	$61.72 ▼ $86.10	$149.16B	0.63	11.91 million shs	3.45 million shs
VST Vistra	$202.00 -0.1%	$188.82	$72.90 ▼ $216.85	$68.54B	1.3	7.28 million shs	1.81 million shs
XEL Xcel Energy	$72.49 -1.1%	$69.57	$57.43 ▼ $74.57	$42.88B	0.34	3.64 million shs	659,504 shs
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$85.84 -0.4%	$82.66	$71.02 ▼ $87.67	$20.79B	0.52	11.58 million shs	5.40 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
NEE NextEra Energy	0.00%	+2.85%	-2.60%	+3.96%	-6.51%
VST Vistra	0.00%	-2.74%	+2.99%	+38.72%	+157.31%
XEL Xcel Energy	0.00%	-0.19%	+6.86%	+8.19%	+26.52%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	0.00%	+0.44%	+4.52%	+8.05%	+17.08%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
NEE NextEra Energy	4.8183 of 5 stars	3.3	3.0	3.3	2.6	4.3	2.5	1.9
VST Vistra	2.8164 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	2.5	0.0	4.0	2.5	0.0
XEL Xcel Energy	3.2438 of 5 stars	1.4	3.0	4.2	0.0	4.3	1.7	1.9
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
NEE NextEra Energy	2.53	Moderate Buy	$84.42	16.54% Upside
VST Vistra	2.86	Moderate Buy	$186.69	-7.58% Downside
XEL Xcel Energy	2.73	Moderate Buy	$76.00	4.84% Upside
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	2.48	Hold	$85.85	0.01% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest NEE, VST, XEL, and XLU Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/8/2025	VST Vistra	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$145.00 ➝ $241.00
8/1/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$74.00 ➝ $78.00
7/25/2025	VST Vistra	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$207.00 ➝ $230.00
7/21/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$77.00 ➝ $81.00
7/11/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	HSBC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$88.00 ➝ $86.00
7/10/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$65.00 ➝ $67.00
7/3/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target		$86.00 ➝ $82.00
6/18/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$95.00 ➝ $94.00
6/18/2025	VST Vistra	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$178.00 ➝ $186.00
6/18/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$78.00 ➝ $77.00
6/17/2025	VST Vistra	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$160.00 ➝ $207.00

(Data available from 8/11/2022 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
NEE NextEra Energy	$24.75B	6.03	$6.24 per share	11.61	$29.40 per share	2.46
VST Vistra	$17.22B	3.98	$15.54 per share	13.00	$9.13 per share	22.12
XEL Xcel Energy	$13.96B	3.07	$8.34 per share	8.69	$34.00 per share	2.13
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
NEE NextEra Energy	$6.95B	$2.86	25.33	18.29	2.49	22.84%	12.31%	3.86%	10/22/2025 (Estimated)
VST Vistra	$2.66B	$6.27	32.22	31.96	2.46	12.90%	104.02%	7.72%	N/A
XEL Xcel Energy	$1.94B	$3.61	20.09	17.51	2.47	14.85%	10.52%	2.92%	10/30/2025 (Estimated)
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	20.74	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest NEE, VST, XEL, and XLU Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/7/2025	Q2 2025	VST Vistra	$1.63	$1.01	-$0.62	$1.21	$5.15 billion	$4.25 billion
7/31/2025	Q2 2025	XEL Xcel Energy	$0.66	$0.75	+$0.09	$0.75	$3.31 billion	$3.29 billion
7/23/2025	Q2 2025	NEE NextEra Energy	$1.01	$1.05	+$0.04	$0.98	$7.52 billion	$6.70 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
NEE NextEra Energy	$2.27	3.13%	N/A	79.37%	31 Years
VST Vistra	$0.90	0.45%	N/A	14.35%	6 Years
XEL Xcel Energy	$2.28	3.15%	N/A	63.16%	22 Years
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	$2.28	2.66%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest NEE, VST, XEL, and XLU Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/30/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	quarterly	$0.57	3.15%	9/15/2025	9/15/2025	10/20/2025
7/30/2025	VST Vistra	quarterly	$0.2260	0.44%	9/19/2025	9/19/2025	9/30/2025
7/24/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	quarterly	$0.5665	3.13%	8/28/2025	8/28/2025	9/15/2025
5/21/2025	XEL Xcel Energy	quarterly	$0.57	3.26%	6/13/2025	6/13/2025	7/20/2025
5/22/2025	NEE NextEra Energy	quarterly	$0.5665	3.39%	6/2/2025	6/2/2025	6/16/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
NEE NextEra Energy	1.36	0.54	0.45
VST Vistra	6.53	0.86	0.77
XEL Xcel Energy	1.48	0.96	0.85
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
NEE NextEra Energy	78.72%
VST Vistra	90.88%
XEL Xcel Energy	78.38%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	90.06%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
NEE NextEra Energy	0.18%
VST Vistra	1.42%
XEL Xcel Energy	0.09%
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
NEE NextEra Energy	9,300	2.06 billion	2.06 billion	Optionable
VST Vistra	6,850	339.33 million	334.51 million	Optionable
XEL Xcel Energy	11,380	591.43 million	590.89 million	Optionable
XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund	N/A	242.17 million	N/A	Not Optionable

NEE, VST, XEL, and XLU Headlines

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NEE, VST, XEL, and XLU Company Descriptions

NextEra Energy NYSE:NEE

$72.44 +0.03 (+0.03%)

As of 01:17 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.

Vistra NYSE:VST

$202.00 -0.12 (-0.06%)

As of 01:17 PM Eastern

Vistra Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company. The company operates through six segments: Retail, Texas, East, West, Sunset, and Asset Closure. It retails electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers across states in the United States and the District of Columbia. In addition, the company is involved in the electricity generation, wholesale energy purchases and sales, commodity risk management, fuel production, and fuel logistics management activities. It serves approximately 4 million customers with a generation capacity of approximately 37,000 megawatts with a portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company was formerly known as Vistra Energy Corp. and changed its name to Vistra Corp. in July 2020. Vistra Corp. was founded in 1882 and is based in Irving, Texas.

Xcel Energy NASDAQ:XEL

$72.49 -0.84 (-1.15%)

As of 01:17 PM Eastern

Xcel Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, purchasing, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity. It operates through Regulated Electric Utility, Regulated Natural Gas Utility, and All Other segments. The company generates electricity through wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, biomass, and solar energy sources, as well as coal, natural gas, oil, wood, and refuse-derived fuels. It also purchases, transports, distributes, and sells natural gas to retail customers, as well as transports customer-owned natural gas. In addition, the company develops and leases natural gas pipelines, and storage and compression facilities; and invests in rental housing projects and nonregulated assets, as well as procures equipment for the construction of renewable generation facilities. It serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the portions of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. The company was incorporated in 1909 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund NYSEARCA:XLU

$85.84 -0.34 (-0.39%)

As of 01:17 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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