NYSE:XEL - Xcel Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Xcel Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "XEL."

Xcel Energy declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 11th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.405 per share on Monday, January 20th. This represents a $1.62 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 24th. View Xcel Energy's Dividend History.

Xcel Energy Inc (NYSE:XEL) announced its earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The utilities provider reported $1.01 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.03 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $3.01 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.55 billion. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.96 EPS. View Xcel Energy's Earnings History.

Xcel Energy is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Xcel Energy.

Xcel Energy will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

10 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Xcel Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $57.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Xcel Energy's share price to reach $62.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Xcel Energy.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Xcel Energy in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Xcel Energy.

Press coverage about XEL stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Xcel Energy earned a media sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Xcel Energy.

Some companies that are related to Xcel Energy include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Xcel Energy investors own include Exelon (EXC), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Potash Co. of Saskatchewan (POT), Casey's General Stores (CASY), Chevron (CVX), Walmart (WMT), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Xcel Energy's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Stewart & Patten Co. LLC (0.08%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), First National Bank of Omaha (0.03%), United Services Automobile Association (0.03%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.03%) and Fulton Breakefield Broenniman LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Xcel Energy stock include Benjamin G S Fowke III, Christopher B Clark, David L Eves, Judy M Poferl, Kent T Larson, Lynn Casey, Mark E Stoering, Robert Frenzel, Scott M Wilensky and Timothy V Wolf. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Xcel Energy.

XEL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, DNB Asset Management AS, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Stewart & Patten Co. LLC and United Services Automobile Association. Company insiders that have sold Xcel Energy company stock in the last year include Benjamin G S Fowke III, Christopher B Clark, David L Eves, Judy M Poferl, Kent T Larson, Mark E Stoering, Robert Frenzel and Scott M Wilensky. View Insider Buying and Selling for Xcel Energy.

XEL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA, Donaldson Capital Management LLC, TIAA FSB, RFG Advisory LLC, AE Wealth Management LLC and Sciencast Management LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Xcel Energy.

Shares of XEL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of XEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $66.38.

Xcel Energy has a market capitalization of $34.81 billion. View Additional Information About Xcel Energy.

The official website for Xcel Energy is http://www.xcelenergy.com/.

Xcel Energy's mailing address is 414 Nicollet Mall, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401-1927, United States. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at +1-612-3305500 or via email at [email protected]