NYSE:XELXcel Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Xcel Energy's stock was trading at $66.82 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, XEL stock has decreased by 2.4% and is now trading at $65.24. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Xcel Energy in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Xcel Energy.

Xcel Energy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Xcel Energy.

Xcel Energy Inc (NYSE:XEL) posted its earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.56 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.59 by $0.03. The utilities provider earned $2.81 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.27 billion. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 10.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.61 EPS. View Xcel Energy's earnings history.

Xcel Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 20th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.43 per share on Monday, July 20th. This represents a $1.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.64%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 12th. View Xcel Energy's dividend history.

Xcel Energy updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 7th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 2.73-2.83 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.76.

13 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Xcel Energy's stock. Their forecasts range from $54.00 to $70.00. On average, they anticipate Xcel Energy's stock price to reach $63.31 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.0%. View analysts' price targets for Xcel Energy.

Media coverage about XEL stock has trended somewhat positive on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Xcel Energy earned a coverage optimism score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories 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 the latest news aboutXcel Energy.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Xcel Energy investors own include Exelon (EXC), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Southern (SO), Walmart (WMT), Chevron (CVX), Mcdonald's (MCD), Potash Co. of Saskatchewan (POT), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ) and AbbVie (ABBV).

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

Xcel Energy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.35%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.99%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (5.77%), State Street Corp (5.53%), Capital World Investors (2.88%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.79%). 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 and Scott M Wilensky. View institutional ownership trends for Xcel Energy.

XEL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., BlackRock Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Ensign Peak Advisors Inc, and Invesco Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Xcel Energy company stock in the last year include Benjamin G S Fowke III, Christopher B Clark, Kent T Larson, Mark E Stoering, Robert Frenzel, and Scott M Wilensky. View insider buying and selling activity for Xcel Energy.

XEL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., State Street Corp, Swiss National Bank, AMF Pensionsforsakring AB, and Victory Capital Management Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for Xcel Energy.

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One share of XEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $65.24.

Xcel Energy has a market capitalization of $34.26 billion.

The official website for Xcel Energy is 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]